Patna: The Grand Alliance on Tuesday released its common manifesto titled “Tejashwi’s Pledge” for the Bihar Assembly Election 2025, but a debate has emerged over the limited representation of Muslim leaders on its cover page.

Despite the alliance’s repeated emphasis on minority welfare and the RJD’s traditional Muslim–Yadav (MY) vote base, only one Muslim leader—Abdul Bari Siddiqui—appears on the cover.

This has sparked discontent within sections of the Muslim community and among several minority leaders.

According to the 2022 caste-based survey conducted under the Grand Alliance government, Muslims constitute around 18 per cent of Bihar’s population.

Many community representatives have questioned why their participation in leadership positions does not reflect their demographic streng

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