Patna: Upendra Kushwaha, the chief of the Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM), is set to hold a rally in Patna on Friday demanding delimitation reforms, a move he has described as “historic” and unprecedented for the city’s Miller High School ground, the venue of the event.
The rally, beginning at 1pm, forms part of a wider campaign by Kushwaha’s party to push for constitutional reforms on delimitation. Previous rallies were staged in Bikramganj in May, followed by Muzaffarpur and Gaya. The Patna gathering, dubbed the Constitutional Rights Delimitation Reform Rally, is aimed at taking the campaign statewide.
Kushwaha has positioned the event as an issue-based political mobilisation rather than an electoral exercise, insisting it is intended to place pressure on the centre. “We do not do politics by creating ruckus, but by focusing on solving people’s problems,” he said.
The timing of the rally is symbolically significant. It coincides with Teachers’ Day, as well as the death anniversary of Jagdev Prasad, a prominent leader of the Kushwaha community who was assassinated in 1974. Rallies commemorating Prasad’s martyrdom have long been a feature of Bihar politics, and Kushwaha said this influenced the choice of date.
The RLM leader has also accused previous governments, particularly Congress administrations, of blocking constitutionally mandated processes. “According to the Constitution, a census should be held every 10 years and delimitation carried out on that basis. But the Congress government stopped it,” he claimed, adding that his party would carry the campaign beyond Bihar.
