Patna, Sep 24 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday reached out to the numerically powerful extremely backward classes (EBCs) of Bihar, promising, among other things, a law for protection against atrocities, on the lines of the SC/ST Act, if the INDIA bloc came to power in the state.

Gandhi's aggressive EBC outreach, days ahead of the announcement of assembly polls, came at an event titled, evocatively, 'Ati Pichhda Nyay Sankalp' (pledge for justice to extremely backward classes).

The Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, who was here to attend the Congress Working Committee meeting in the city, came to the event along with the party's national president Mallikarjun Kharge.

They were joined by allies like RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, whose presence flew in the face of speculati

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