Senior Janata Dal (United) leader Mohammed Qasim Ansari resigned from the party headed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the party’s support to the passing of the Waqf Amendment Bill.
In a letter to Nitish Kumar, Mr Ansari said the JD(U) supporting the Centre on the Waqf issue has left him “disheartened”. Mr Ansari said the Waqf Amendment Bill “goes against our principles”.
“… I am disheartened that I gave several years of my life to the party,” he said in the letter in Hindi.