Patna, June 25 (UNI) Senior RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav today alleged that the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government has deprived backwards from getting the benefits of an increased 16 percent reservation for them in government services, which was given during the Grand Alliance regime.

Yadav told media persons here that the Grand Alliance government led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had increased reservation for backwards and oppressed from 49 percent to 65 percent in government services in the year 2023. Chief Minister Kumar had made the announcement to this effect in the Bihar assembly during its winter session in the year 2023 but as he joined hands with BJP to form the NDA government in

January 2024, focus on giving benefits of increased reservation benefits of 16 percent to them, was shifted and he did not take much interest, he added.

"Our party RJD had made request to Kumar on so many occasions to exert pressure on the Narendra Modi government to place the new reservation provision in the 9th schedule of the constitution," the RJD leader said, adding that the issue was taken to court where the decision of 16 percent reservation was stayed.

"Had the new reservation provision been placed in the 9th Schedule of the constitution, it would not have been stayed by the court," he pointed out.

Yadav said that there was rampant corruptions in the state administration and people were being forced to cough up money for getting done even small works. Nothing can be done without bribe in Bihar, he alleged.

The RJD leader said his party would struggle to end feudalism in Bihar and also in New Delhi. There was no time for him to take rest till justice is ensured to the backwards and deprived, he stressed.

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