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Political Rise of other backward classes
One long-term development of this period was the rise of Other Backward Classes as a political force. You have already come across the term ‘OBC’. This refers to the administrative category ‘Other Backward Classes’. These are communities other than SC and ST that suffer from educational and social backwardness.
The support for the Congress among many sections of the ‘backward castes’ declined. This created a space for non-Congress parties that drew more support from these communities. The rise of these parties first found political expression at the national level in the form of the Janata
Party government in 1977. Many of the constituents of the Janata Party, like the Bharatiya Kranti Dal and the Samyukta Socialist Party, had a powerful rural base among some sections of the OBC.