PATNA, May 2 -- In 2024, the Lok Sabha election in Bihar was the first test for political parties hankering for credit after the state came out with its caste survey data, reservation hike and later the court's rejection one after another.

A year later, Bihar would again be the first laboratory to assess the political impact of the Centre's decision to get caste enumeration done along with the forthcoming Census amidst another credit war, as the state goes to Assembly elections later this year.

There has been a demand for caste-based census and Bihar was the first state to take an all -party delegation, including BJP, JD(U), RJD, Left, HAM, LKlJP and VIP, led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to meet PM Narendra Modi in August 2021.

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