Bihar Assembly election LIVE: INDIA bloc hardens stance on Waqf, vows to scrap it after coming to power

Left to right, leaders of the INDIA alliance, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, CPI (ML) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya. File
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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and INDIA bloc’s Chief Ministerial face for Bihar Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday (October 26, 2025) said that the Waqf (Amendment) Act would be “thrown in the dustbin” if his party comes to power in the State. 

He also said allowances of the representatives of Bihar’s panchayati raj system will be doubled if the INDIA bloc comes to power in the state.

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