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Rajneeti podcast | Bihar Elections 2020: Remembering the lessons left behind by former Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur

Mohammad Sajjad, Professor of Modern History at the Aligarh University, talks about Thakur's Socialist movement.

October 14, 2020 / 18:24 IST
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Come election time, the politicians, the experts and the people of Bihar remember the political strategies of former CM Karpoori Thakur, a Socialist leader who stood against the Congress after independence.

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In this episode of Rajneeti with Moneycontrol's Gulam Jeelani, Mohammad Sajjad, Professor of Modern History at the Aligarh University, talks about how Thakur played a major role in the empowerment of backward castes in Bihar.

He explains how the former CM's movement influences the present-day politicians who will contest in the 2020 assembly elections.