Soon after Nitish Kumar went to the Raj Bhawan to offer his resignation as NDA’s Chief Minister in Bihar on Tuesday, the alliance partner BJP cried “foul and betrayal”. State BJP leaders were at loss of words and taken aback by the sudden, yet expected move by Mr. Kumar.
“By coming out of the National Democratic Alliance, Nitish violated people’s mandate which was given to us in the 2020 Assembly poll. We fulfilled our promise to make him Chief Minister despite his party got only 43 seats in the polls but he betrayed us today. People of Bihar will not tolerate this”, said State BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal, addressing media persons at the party headquarters in Patna. Mr. Jaiswal offered no other explanation on the issue. Senior party leader and Deputy Chief Minister in Mr. Kumar’s Cabinet Tarkishore Prasad, Health Minister Mangal Pandey, Road Construction Minister Nitin Nabin and others too were present.
