00:00Big, big news coming in from Bihar, specifically with regard to upcoming Bihar elections.
00:05Three Janata Dal United Netas have quit from the party for the support to Waqf Amendment Bill.
00:12This is big news. It looks like political tremors and the kind of showdown that we've been witnessing.
00:18Janata Dal United, remember, is an ally of the National Democratic Alliance, of the BJP.
00:23They have approved that and they have said that they are going to eventually come forth and support.
00:28But there is turmoil, that means. We are told the three leaders from the minority community in the JDU
00:34have resigned from the party. But it's not just about resignation from a party, it's ahead of Bihar elections.
00:41I'm talking about Mohammad Tabrez Siddiqui. He's the State General Secretary of the Minority Department of the Janata Dal United.
00:50Also there is Mohammad Shahnawaz Malik. They are angry over the support to the bill.
00:56We are told that, again, Nawaz Malik is also State Secretary of the JDU Minority Front.
01:01So these three leaders, at least, in turn have quit.
01:05I'm immediately going across to my colleague Rohit Singh for the latest on that.
01:10Rohit, good morning. That's the first that has happened that any leader has resigned from the party.
01:17All three Muslim leaders, I believe, tell us about their names, what is their stature in the party.
01:23Will it impact Bihar elections?
01:26Well, good morning, Pooja. And let me tell you, at the onset, politics is all about perception.
01:35And the perception here now being created, as far as Bihar is concerned,
01:40that Muslim leaders who are in Janata Dal United, that's the Nitish Kumar's party,
01:46are very upset with the fact that Nitish Kumar and his party have decided to support this Waqf's Amendment Bill
01:54in Lok Sabha as well as in Raj Sabha.
01:56Now, this bill has been passed in both the houses of the parliament.
01:59And now we are seeing a flurry of resignations coming from the Muslim leaders of the Janata Dal United.
02:06And three leaders have already resigned from the party in the last 12 hours.
02:13You already called the names, Shahnawaz Malik, Tabrez Siddiqui and Qasim Ansari.
02:18They are not very big leaders, but yes, they are important leaders in the party of Minority Cell and other departments.
02:26But it's all about perception that is being created here.
02:29And apart from the three resignations that have come, the Shia Waqf Board chief has also expressed his anger at Nitish Kumar
02:39supporting the bill. Gulam Ghosh, who is a party senior leader, he has expressed his reservation.
02:45And Rasool Baliyawi, who is a former Raj Sabha MP from the party, he has also expressed his anger against Nitish Kumar.
02:51So, you are seeing almost half a dozen Muslim leaders in the party.
02:55Some have resigned, some have come out openly and spoken against the party's decision to support the Waqf Bill.
03:01And this does not augur well before the assembly elections in Bihar.
03:04Because remember, Muslims in Bihar, at least 17 to 18 percent population vote back.
03:09And most of them have been voting for Lalu Prasad and RJD in the last few years.
03:13Stay on with me, stay on with me. On the phone line, first reaction coming in from the RJD.
03:18Mrityunjay Tiwari is joining me. Mrityunjay ji, you tell us, the three Muslim leaders of Janata Dal United have quit the party.
03:28But will this make a difference? Because eventually, they have remained the alliance partners of BJP.
03:32And the party is still strong in the alliance.
03:35Look, JDU and respected Nitish Kumar ji used to call themselves secularism and used to say that we are a secular party, JDU.
03:46But the way in the last two days, the face of JDU has been exposed,
03:55the way they are calling the RSS-satisfied CM Nitish Kumar, not Nitish Kumar, but Chitish Kumar on the agenda of the BJP.
04:09Because they have kneeled down in front of the BJP for power, for seats. JDU has been exposed.
04:17Now the charge is coming to you, Mrityunjay ji, of RJD, that they are appeasing the Vote Bank.
04:22Do you think this will make a difference to RJD, that if three Muslim leaders leave JDU, then RJD will have more and more support?
04:33Look, this is not a question of harm and benefit, it is not a question of profit and loss, it is a question of the country.
04:41This country will follow its constitution, its rules and regulations.
04:46If someone spoils the dreams of Babasaheb Ambedkar, then this country cannot forgive him.
04:53Now Nitish Kumar's party has remained as the backbone of the BJP. Now only BJP has to be united.
05:01Now the name of JDU will be BJPU. BJPU.
05:10Now the name of JDU will be changed.
05:12Now the people have become a party. Now there is no existence of this party.
05:18The people who are supporters of the BJP in the NDA government, how will they go to the people now?
05:25The way the constitution and democracy are being rolled out, the government cannot run the country on the basis of power.
05:35Do you believe that the Muslim community will now unite and vote for RJD?
05:43JDU's entire vote has been changed.
05:45Look, all of us, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, all these people vote for RJD.
05:53At that time, the biggest party was RJD in Bihar in 2020.
05:57At that time, we were the only party that made RJD a government in Bihar.
06:03This is not a question of Hindus and Muslims. You should not look at it from this perspective.
06:07You should see that today they have done this kind of work, tomorrow they will do another kind of work.
06:13The government cannot be left unattached. The opposition is also a part of the government.
06:18This country will not run on the basis of the power of the government, but on the basis of the constitution.
06:24What is happening in the country?
06:26Thank you so much. Mrityunjay Tiwari from the RJD is saying this is like a B team of the BJP, now JDU.
06:32It's going to be BJPU and that they are communalising the situation of this country like with the Waqf Amendment Bill.
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