The Congress’ 'Nyay Sankalp Patra' was unveiled in Bihar, but its ambition is national. The document is a carefully calibrated blueprint for the reconquest of the vast Hindi heartland — a territory the party lost first to Mandal-era champions, and then to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s formidable social engine. At the heart of this strategy is a clear, calculated focus on the Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs), a demographic now treated as the most valuable electoral commodity in Indian politics.

This delivers long-overdue political recognition to the most marginalised sections — an imperative noted as far back as the Kaka Kalelkar Commission (1955).

From the OBC-dominated politics of the 1990s, we are currently in a new era focused on the EBCs. This is striking. After years of dabbli

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