Tejashwi Yadav Sunday pledged to scrap the Waqf (Amendment) Act in Bihar if his alliance comes to power. (Photo: X@Tejashwi Yadav)Bihar Election 2025 LIVE Updates: RJD leader and Mahagathbandhan chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav Sunday pledged to scrap the Waqf (Amendment) Act in Bihar if his alliance comes to power. Campaigning in four Seemanchal Assembly seats — Pranpur, Kocha Dhaman, Jokihat and Narpatganj — Yadav said the election was a fight to preserve the Constitution and pluralism. “If our government is formed, we will throw that (Waqf) Bill into the dustbin,” he said at multiple rallies, calling the measure part of a broader assault on Constitutional equality. “This country belongs to everyone. Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, all have sacrificed. The Constitution grants everyone equal rights,” he said in Kishanganj.
11 leaders expelled from JD(U): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) expelled 11 of its leaders, including a former minister, for engaging in anti-party activities and “defying its ideology”. According to a statement issued by JD(U) state general secretary Chandan Kumar Singh, the expelled members have also been suspended from the party’s primary membership. The expelled members include former minister Shailesh Kumar, former MLAs Shyam Bahadur Singh and Sudharshan Kumar, and former MLCs Sanjay Prasad and Ranvijay Singh.
NDA’s CM face: RJD leader and CM face of the Mahagathbandhan Tejashwi Yadav claimed that Nitish Kumar will not be made the chief minister if the ruling alliance is again voted to power. He also alleged that Kumar has been hijacked by the BJP, and two people from Gujarat – ostensibly referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah – are “controlling” Bihar. LJP-Ram Vilas chief Chirag Paswan, on the other hand, slammed the Mahagathbandhan for not projecting a Muslim Deputy CM face.
Bihar Election 2025 LIVE Updates: On Bihar elections, Uttar Pradesh Congress President Ajay Rai said, "In Bihar, our government is certainly going to be formed. The state has bad governance now. The people of Bihar want to get rid of this bad governance; the youth have become fed up due to unemployment..."
Bihar Election 2025 LIVE Updates: State Minister OP Rajbhar said, “This time, the public is the master. Babasaheb Ambedkar ji has created such a system that leaders, once made kings, again seek votes from the people when elections are announced. People of every party are doing that.”
Bihar Election 2025 LIVE Updates: The Bihar unit of the BJP expelled six party leaders, including Kahalgaon MLA Pawan Yadav, for indulging in "anti-party activities".
According to a party statement issued on Sunday evening, the expelled leaders, including the MLA, have also been suspended from the party's primary membership.
"The party took disciplinary action against them after it found that all six leaders were indulging in anti-party activities against the NDA nominees during the ongoing assembly elections in the state. The sitting MLA of the outgoing assembly, Pawan Yadav, who was denied a ticket by the party this time, is contesting against the NDA nominee from Kahalgaon seat as an Independent candidate," it said.
Others expelled from the party were Sunny Yadav, Shravan Kushwaha, Uttam Choudhary, Maruti Nandan Maruti and Pawan Choudhary.
Reacting to the development, a senior BJP leader said, "These expelled leaders were working against the officially declared candidates of the NDA nominee, and against the ideology of the party."
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Bihar Election 2025 LIVE Updates: Bihar Minister and BJP candidate from Bankipur assembly seat, Nitin Nabin, said, "The CM has spoken about the change Bihar has witnessed in the last 20 years. Bihar was known for the fodder scam, casteism, and cheating in exams. Under Nitish Kumar's leadership, people from Bihar talk about how the state is progressing, including the fulfilment of basic needs. Nitish Kumar defined himself as a true 'samajwadi'...Bihar is on the path of progress and development and giving competition to other states."
Bihar Election 2025 LIVE Updates: Union Minister Chirag Paswan said, "The opposition parties, especially the RJD, have the ideology of using any means necessary to win elections. Our fight is against this mindset... The convoy of the NDA candidate of Bhaktiyarpur, LJP leader Arun Kumar, was attacked today by anti-social elements belonging to opposition parties. This incident forces us to think that RJD thinks that people from deprived sectors of society are only good for giving votes, that these people should not reach such a level in society that they can join the mainstream. That is why whenever someone from the Dalit or backward classes starts becoming powerful, then these people try to threaten him by any means... Chirag Paswan, LJP, and NDA will never negotiate with such anti-social elements. My government is committed to ensuring the strictest action against all the culprits. We will never let 'jungle raj' return to Bihar..."
Bihar Election 2025 LIVE Updates: RJD leader and Mahagathbandhan chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav Sunday pledged to scrap the Waqf (Amendment) Act in Bihar if his alliance comes to power.
Campaigning in four Seemanchal Assembly seats — Pranpur, Kocha Dhaman, Jokihat and Narpatganj — Yadav said the election was a fight to preserve the Constitution and pluralism.
“If our government is formed, we will throw that (Waqf) Bill into the dustbin,” he said at multiple rallies, calling the measure part of a broader assault on Constitutional equality. “This country belongs to everyone. Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, all have sacrificed. The Constitution grants everyone equal rights,” he said in Kishanganj.
Bihar Election 2025 LIVE Updates: Though more women than men have been turning up to vote in Bihar in the last few elections, women’s representation in the elections as well as in the Assembly has remained low, shows an analysis of the past five state elections.
In the February 2005 Assembly elections, the first after Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar, 234 women contested the polls, of whom 24 made it to the Assembly. The state went to the polls months later in October, but only 138 women were in the fray. Twenty-five women made it to the Assembly in that election.
