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The predictions of Jagdev Prasad, Bihar’s Lenin, have come true to an extent. He had said, “The first generation will be killed, the second generation will go to jail and third generation will rule.” Raghuniram Shastri, national president of Shoshit Samaj Dal, which Prasad founded, talks to Nawal Kishore Kumar

He introduced some controversial policies – removed English as a compulsory subject in the matriculation examinations when he was the deputy chief minister and education minister of Bihar. He gave priority to unemployed engineers in jobs in the government contracts during his first term as the chief minister. He introduced reservation for the OBCs in the government jobs and educational institutions in the state during his second term as the chief minister of Bihar, and advocated arming the landless Dalits and the poor during the later stages of his political career.

The JDU is feeling increasingly insecure about its MBC vote bank because it fears that the BJP may play the MBC card in the name of Narendra Modi. It doesn’t want to share its MBC constituency with any other party. That is why it decided to field Ramnath Thakur and Kahkashan Parveen in the Rajya Sabha polls