The details flying in the state media as implanted by the vested sources indicate that highly educated applicants of the higher castes were deliberately failed in their interviews and men less educated but not of higher castes were unjustly given added marks in their interviews to enable them to get appointment. In other words, Mewalal was accused of using his authority for eliminating many only because of their higher castes. The BJP delegation had demanded in 2017 strict action against Mewalal when the party was main opposition before Nitish Kumar switched sides to depend his regime on shoulders of the BJP by abandoning support of Lalu Yadav and his political base.

Bihar was indulging in class wars from historic times in third century BC, Chandragupta Maurya had annihilated the upper caste ruler Nand dynasty to build the great Magadh Empire. In the post Independence era, the power corridors were under control by the Upper castes with minimum share to other undeveloped social class. First jolt to the upper castes led politics was in 1967 with defeat of the Congress. The Non Congress opportunity was lost due to machinations of and manipulative politics by the upper castes. The Congress rule led by the upper castes returned in 1972 to provoke the agitation in 1974 against wide spread corruption in the political system. The educated young of the OBC played a dominant role in 1977 elections. Three educated young had emerged in political arena. Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rambilas Paswan and Nitish Kumar as Kurami were new politicians. Of 54 members elected in the Lok Sabha from Bihar 37 had never stepped out of the state. The 1977 election was a watershed in the Indian politics as 359 members had worked in rural areas only. In other words, they were seeped neck deep in work that was essentially deeply dependent in caste politics. The ambitions of old man Charan Singh brought the new regime down in 27 months to facilitate the dramatic return of Indira Gandhi.

Lalu Prasad Yadav benefitted by consolidation of the Other Backward classes unity succeeded in ejecting the upper castes from power corridors of the state. Since 1990 the power remains in hands of the OBCs in the state even though Lalu Yadav was successfully or ingenuously roped in the fodder scandal and on charges of corruption merely because he was instrumental in consolidation of power hold of the OBC in the state. Desperate efforts of the upper castes to regain their supremacy did not succeed. The Congress Empire collapsed with the conversion of the political empire into the family estate. But other national party fully loaded with educated professional, the Jan Sangh even in its new form Bharatiya Janata Party could not regain the prime position for the upper castes in power structure and was reduced to be an appendage of the OBC dominated entity.

Nitish Kumar, OBC man could not tolerate the dictatorial attitude of Lalu Yadav after he was forced to step down to face the trumped up corruption charges, broke away to form his own political edifice. He naturally drifted to the BJP, more because of Atal Behari Vajpayee than to the BJP due to the liberal approach of Vajpayee to take every class on his wagon, unlike the core in his party. He proved his ability as the rail minister in the Vajpayee government to become obvious and natural choice to lead in Bihar. He has been steadily serving the state for 15 years to extricate the state economic from dire straight, especially after the loss of the mines richer parts of the state in the truncation of the state for formation of a separate state of Jharkhand.

He restored in minds of each person, but more particularly of the OBC populous in the state the glory of its old age past through restoration of the Mithila University. It had become the symbol of glory of the Magadh Empire. Young from distant places used to throng the university campus for learning to spread the fame of the Magadh Empire 2300 years ago. Even though Nitish Kumar was in coalition form in the state’s ruling, he could coax the BJP leadership to bow to his demand that the controversial figure the Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will not step into the state for campaign in the 2010 assembly polls. The BJP leadership still cuddling the bitter bite of its electoral debacle in the 2009 Lok Sabha poll had no alternative but to agree and thus become the B team of a state party.

Most upper caste leaders could not chew this insult but also could no eject it, particularly after the defeat in 2015 assembly polls. Nitish Kumar had ended his coalition of 12 years with the BJP to reach an understanding with Lalu Yadav and the Congress. Many predicted the collapse of his government in six months after resounding victory due to known habit of manipulative political games of Lalu Yadav. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to have succeeded in two years to convince Nitish Kumar how he was unjustly a victim of the communal politics game in Gujarat that had led to a communal carnage in 2002 March.

The solid development was in Nitish Kumar leaving the non BJP camp to again reach the understanding with the BJP for a coalition. H insisted for and obtained much larger share in the Lok Sabha seats in the state for the 2019 polls. It was a blow to many in the BJP who had attempted to embarrass Nitish Kumar in 2017 with a loud demand for action against Mewalal though the state police could not dig out enough material in eight years of investigations. They had also demanded Nitish Kumar vacate the office for the BJP to have its turn. Narendra Modi silenced them in the state polls by sharing the public political platform with him in the election

The Mewalal exit again came to delight them. They could not see that inclusion of he accused man in the state cabinet and his exit within hours after his swearing were essentially dramatic moves directed by the chief minister to expose the real faces and political games of the upper caste leaders. So next few months hold a promise of major political moves.