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Bihar Assembly elections LIVE: Waqf Act will be 'thrown into dustbin' if INDIA bloc voted to power in Bihar: Tejashwi

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.

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.

- PTI

Mahagathbandhan's Chief Ministerial candidate and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav assures voters that his alliance would deliver on every promise made.

Taking a dig at the NDA, he says, “no one in NDA is saying anything except abusing Lalu Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav”.

He further hits it out at the NDA over its unfulfilled commitments, saying, “What happened to the two crore jobs, Startup India, Make in India? We believe in doing the work. We are telling everything to the people about what we will do in the next 5 years.”

-ANI

RJD chief and Mahagathbandhan chief ministerial candidate says if voted to power, will double allowances of representatives of Bihar's panchayati raj system.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U) has expelled 11 leaders, including a former Minister, for anti-party activities and “defying its ideology” in the run-up to the assembly elections.

The expelled members have also been suspended from the party's primary membership, according to a statement issued by JD(U) state general secretary Chandan Kumar Singh.

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Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Sharma expresses strong confidence that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will secure more than a two-thirds majority in the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, while claiming that the opposition Mahagathbandhan will fail to reach the three-digit mark.

Mr. Sharma says, “We are going to secure more than a two-thirds majority, and even if Congress, RJD, AIMIM, and potentially SP support them, they are unlikely to win three-digit seat counts collectively.”

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Tej Pratap Yadav claims Tejashwi remains overshadowed by their father Lalu Prasad, despite support for his Chief Ministerial candidacy.

A strange situation has developed for the Mahagathbandhan ('Grand Alliance') at the Gaura-Bauram Assembly constituency in Darbhanga district, where Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate Afzal Ali Khan secured the ticket to contest, but in a last minute seat-sharing deal, the seat went to the kitty of an ally, the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP).

Published - October 26, 2025 08:15 am IST

Bihar / Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 / state politics / Live news

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