Owaisi, who is on a Bihar tour, said he had predicted Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar s swicth well ahead of the JD(U) president went back to the BJP-led alliance
Patna, Jan 28 (PTI) An OBC leader of the BJP in Bihar where the party wants to transcend its pro-upper caste image, Samrat Choudhary has had a meteoric rise since he joined the outfit nearly seven years ago.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bihar has been focusing on gaining support from the backward castes in the state. The party has been appointing leaders from the Other Backward Castes (OBC) and Most Backward Class (MBC) in key positions within the party s organizational structure. This strategy has allowed the BJP to broaden its support base beyond the upper castes. The party s efforts to promote OBC faces have been successful, as seen in the selection of two OBC Deputy Chief Ministers in November 2020.
Shah coined the acronym at a public meeting in Hisua, falling under Nawada district and the eponymous Lok Sabha constituency, squarely blaming the Nitish Kumar government for the communal tension that forced him to cancel a scheduled visit to Sasaram, one of the riot-hit towns, earlier in the day