Patna, Oct 26 (PTI) Poll-bound Bihar on Saturday bore witness to a hardening of stance by the INDIA bloc on the issue of the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Act, with chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav and key ally Dipankar Bhattacharya of CPI(ML) Liberation vowing to thwart implementation of the law upon coming to power.

A day after RJD MLC Abdul Qari Saheb’s threat of tearing the Waqf Act to shreds had triggered a controversy, Yadav, son and heir apparent of party supremo Lalu Prasad, told rallies in Seemanchal region that upon forming the next government, the contentious law will be “consigned to the dustbin”.

One of the districts covered by Yadav, in the Muslim-majority north-eastern part of Bihar, was Katihar, where he received a thumbs up from local Congress MP and former Unio

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