Patna: Union Minister for Food Processing Industries and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), accusing it of exploiting the Muslim community for votes while denying them top political positions.

He urged the community to break free from what he termed as being a “bonded vote bank”.

Paswan recalled that in 2005, his father and LJP founder, the late Ram Vilas Paswan, had made a significant political move to support the idea of a Muslim Chief Minister in Bihar, but the RJD refused to back it.

“In 2005, my leader, my father, the late Ram Vilas Paswan ji sacrificed even his own party to make a Muslim Chief Minister — yet even then, you did not support him,” Chirag Paswan said in a post on X.

He accused RJD of ma

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