New Delhi, April 3 -- Senior Janata Dal (U) leader Mohammed Qasim Ansari on Thursday resigned from the party and all his posts over the party's stand on Waqf Amendment Bill

"...I am disheartened that I gave several years of my life to the party," said Ansari in a letter to Nitish Kumar.

Janata Dal (United), which is the key ally of the BJP, on Wednesday delivered a full-throated endorsement of the Waqf (Amendment) Bill in Lok Sabha and accused opposition parties of trying to set a narrative that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is anti-Muslim.

The proposed amendments are in the interest of 'pasmanda' (backward Muslims) and the poor and women among the minority religion. It will bring transparency, said Union minister Lalan Singh claimed. ...