The growing discontent among backwards with Congress led to the formation of "Triveni Sangh" political party by the three important backward castes of Bihar. The "Triveni Sangh" was formed not only to act as a power broker for the backward castes but also for ensuring the rights of the lower castes and Dalits. According to Ashwani Kumar, the Dalit women were vulnerable to rapes and assaults particularly by the upper caste Zamindars and "Triveni Sangh" in its manifesto promised to defend their honour. The movement thus worked for reconciliation of lower castes but failed miserably due to competition from superior organisational structure of the Congress's "Backward class federation" and internal disputes between the leaders of the three backward castes who were pivotal in its formation. But, apart from the ballot box, it was successful in eliminating the practices like ""Begar"".The failure of Sangh also gave rise to Maoism in the rural Bihar and the Ekwaari region, the birthplace of "Triveni Sangh" which became the cockpit of struggle between landed upper castes and the landless lower castes.