P.C. Patanjali, chairman of the Most Backward Classes Forum, said that OBCs, more specifically the EBCs, have dismal representation in government jobs and higher education. The Congress is focused on OBCs, particularly the EBCs who have largely voted in favour of the BJP in previous elections
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The groups have demanded that the government must not implement the report of the Rohini Commission, which they believe has been prepared on the basis of caste data taken from the 1931 census conducted by the British. That was the last time caste-based census data had been made public