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Patna, October 25 (IANS) Union Food Processing Industries Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), accusing it of exploiting the Muslim community for votes and depriving them of top political positions.
He urged the community to break free from what he called “bonded vote banks”.
Paswan reminded that in 2005, his father and LJP founder, late Ram Vilas Paswan, had taken an important political step to support the idea of a Muslim chief minister in Bihar, but the RJD had refused to support it.
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He accused RJD of maintaining the same stance even after two decades.
“RJD was not ready to give a Muslim Chief Minister even in 2005 and even today in 2025 it is neither ready to give a Muslim Chief Minister nor a Deputy Chief Minister!” Paswan made the comments while questioning the party’s commitment to inclusion.
Chirag Paswan further appealed to the Muslim community to demand proper representation.
“How will you get respect and participation if you remain a bonded vote bank?” he asked while appealing to Muslim voters.
The Union Minister’s comments come in the wake of the grand alliance’s recent announcement of naming Tejashwi Yadav as the chief ministerial face and Mukesh Sahni as one of the deputy chief ministerial candidates for the upcoming 2025 Bihar Assembly elections.
The absence of a Muslim leader from any top position within the alliance has created discontent. Many AIMIM leaders have also expressed disappointment over this.
While talking to journalists in Patna on Thursday, Chirag Paswan reiterated his father’s old stand.
Accusing the party of double standards, he said, “This is the same RJD to which my father had told in 2005 that they should make a Muslim the Chief Minister.”
“For them, Muslims are just a vote bank. They talk about inclusion but talk about exclusion,” he said.
–IANS
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