Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar, the so-called rebel within the NDA and serving as a Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister, is a known face among the Most Backward Classes (MBC) in the state as well as in Bihar. He was a staunch cadre of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in his early days in politics and even became the Varanasi district president of BSP as he was a close associate of late Kanshi Ram. He floated his own party in 2002 when the BSP denied him an assembly ticket for the third time after losing twice earlier.

Thereafter, his SBSP became a known party of the MBCs, particularly the Rajbhars in eastern Uttar Pradesh. A two-time MLA from the Zahurabad assembly seat, Rajbhar, in 2017, became a minister in the then Yogi Adityanath government. But before the 2022

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