New Delhi, April 14 -- To blunt any adverse impact that the Waqf (Amendment) Act can have on their electoral fortunes, the Janata Dal (United) and the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) -- part of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) -- have begun an outreach in Bihar to allay concerns about the provisions of the revised law. Leaders of both parties, however, assert that the outreach has been designed to prevent communal unrest in the poll-bound state rather than with an eye on elections.

Bihar will elect a new assembly later in the year and both parties are part of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA that will contest the polls as a coalition.

The opposition's charge that the provisions of the new law are "unconstitutional" and im...