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Sushil refutes Nitish's quit claims as 'bunch of lies'

Patna: Bihar's former deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi today rubbished Nitish Kumar's claims of willing to resign from the Chief Minister's post after cancelling dinner for BJP leaders in 2010 and described it as

It was because of the sustained pressure of BJP on Kumar to sever ties, the latter had agreed to give 102 seats to them in the 2010 Assembly polls, Modi said.  

Slamming the chief minister for narrating a ‘convenient' script about 2010 incident to defend his action of severing ties with the BJP, Modi said, the former was trying to score “brownie points by indulging in falsehood” in order to confuse the people in the state.

He assailed Kumar for misguiding people that they would have to fight over the state's demand for special status and said no such confrontation with the Centre would be required if BJP came to power at the Centre.