Govt's 10% upper caste quota move puts political parties of Bihar in a fix

The Lok Sabha constituencies are yet to be divided among the NDA partners

The Centre’s decision to provide 10 per cent reservation to the economically weaker sections has put political parties of Bihar in a fix. Despite vociferously supporting the constitutional amendment Bill in Parliament,  Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) managers are shying away from openly siding with it. Its ally, the Janata Dal (United) or JD (U), too, is lending only conditional support to the move. 

On the other hand, the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD’s) opposition to the quota sounds more technical than ideological. The reason for this “neither here, nor there” approach is more political than it seems. Both the National Democratic Alliance