The nomination of RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav as the INDIA bloc’s Chief Ministerial candidate and VIP chief Mukesh Sahani as the Deputy Chief Ministerial face has sparked a new debate over electoral equations in Bihar.

Many Muslims leaders have criticised this decision of the INDIA Alliance on social media, demanding representation proportional to their population.

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The debate gained momentum on Saturday as LJP (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan raised the issue through a post on the social media platform X and called Muslims “bonded vote bank.”

He wrote, “In 2005, my leader and father, the late Ram Vilas Paswan, even sacrificed his own party to make a Muslim the Chief Minister, yet you did not support him. RJD was not ready for a Muslim Chief Minister in 2005, and even in

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