Katihar: If the INDIA bloc is voted to power in Bihar, the Waqf (Amendment) Act would be “thrown into the dustbin”, the Opposition coalition’s CM candidate Tejashwi Yadav said on Sunday. Addressing a public rally in the Muslim-dominated Katihar district, Mr. Yadav said his father Lalu Prasad, the RJD chief, never compromised with communal forces in the country. “But Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has always supported such forces, and it is because of him that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh [RSS] and its affiliates are spreading communal hatred in the State as well as in the country. The BJP should be called ‘Bharat Jalao Party’. If the INDIA bloc comes to power in the State, we will throw the Waqf Act into the dustbin,” Yadav said. The Waqf (Amendment) Act was passed by Parliament in April.

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