Patna, April 4 -- Two JD (U) Muslim leaders resigned from the party over its stand on the Waqf Bill, expressing strong disappointment over JDU's support for the Waqf Amendment Bill.

JDU's Minority State Secretary, Mohammad Shahnawaz Malik, announced his resignation through a letter addressed to party president Nitish Kumar on Friday, adding that they had "lost all trust" of Muslims who believed that the party was secular.

In the letter, Malik wrote, "Millions of Indian Muslims like us had the firm belief that you are the flag bearer of purely secular ideology. But now this belief has been broken."

He said the way JDU MP Lallan Singh supported the bill in the Lok Sabha has deeply hurt the sentiments of Muslims. "We are deeply saddened b...