RJD releases LS Poll manifesto; tries to woo minorities

“The cases of Muslim youths who are languishing in jail for a long time in the name of terrorism will be reviewed and efforts will be made to provide justice to them,” Prasad said.  The RJD said they will provide reservation to people belonging to Extremely Backward Castes (EBC) in private sector and judicial services.

The party promised to initiate sincere efforts to provide to SC and ST status to 14 castes in EBC category. These include boatmen, barbers, carpenters, potters, gardeners, ironsmiths and Chandravanshis.

The RJD manifesto also talked about creating ‘scheduled castes and scheduled tribes authority' in the state for their development.

“The RJD supports reservation to women. We believe in extending it to women in different caste and communities on the basis of their proportion in the population,” he said.  Trying to please contractual workers employed by the state, RJD state president Ramchandra Purvey, who read aloud from the manifesto, emphasised that the party will remove the contractual system of employment.