Patna: A political slugfest has erupted in Bihar ahead of assembly polls over RJD and its allies allegedly meting out shabby treatment to Muslims in distributing tickets, and also not naming any Muslim as deputy chief minister candidate.

Muslims constitute 17.7 percent of the state`s population. RJD has fielded 18 Muslim candidates while Congress has fielded 10 Muslim candidates. While BJP has not given any ticket to Muslim, JD (U) has given four tickets to them. Union Minister Chirag Paswan`s LJP (RV) has given one ticket to Muslim. Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party promised to field 40 Muslims but gave tickets to 21.

Union Minister Chirag Paswan wrote on ‘X’, “In 2005, my leader, my father late Ram Vilas Paswan Ji, even sacrificed his party to make way for a Muslim Chief Minister—b

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