From reports that Nitish Kumar might resign as Bihar Chief Minister in Wednesday evening to midnight meeting with the Governor to stake claim to form government, here are 6 developments in 6 hours that changed Bihar's political landscape.
In a surprise move, Nitish Kumar quit this evening claiming he can't work in the ‘current circumstances’ following corruption allegations against Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav.
RJD vice president Raghubansh Prasad Singh had yesterday told a news channel that "being the driver of the coalition, it is Kumar's responsibility to keep the Grand Alliance intact by having dialogue with its senior leaders."
Modi also said that nothing much should be read into the “issue-based” friendship between Nitish Kumar and the National Democratic Alliance
Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today demanded the sacking of RJD chief Lalu Prasad's two minister sons - Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav from the Bihar cabinet in the wake of CBI lodging an FIR against them.
The RJD chief had on June 22 said that its ally the JD(U)'s call to support NDA presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind was "a wrong decision", adding he would appeal to Nitish Kumar not to commit "a historic blunder".
The senior BJP leader further asked the state government to take cue from Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab and provide interest-free loan to the farmers in Bihar.
Sushil Modi, who has been making a series of allegations against Lalu and his family, termed Lalu’s servant as a “surrogate”
Prasad got two plots of land allotted in his name in violation of the MLA Cooperative Society's bye-laws, Modi said adding that the bye-laws allowed allotment of only one plot to a member of the Society.
Rabri Devi headed RJD government in Bihar from 1997 to 2005.
Lashing out at Sushil Modi, the actor-turned-politician said, Please stop threatening. Why don't you just expel me?"
Launching a scathing attack on Sushil Kumar Modi , actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha today asked the former Bihar minister to self-evaluate himself before seeking his expulsion from the party.
Shatrughan Sinha today came out in support of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal calling for an end to negative politics and mudslinging.
Lalu claimed that Misa Bharti converted her black money into white through dubious transaction of sale and purchase of shares of her company - Mishail Packers and Printers Pvt Ltd.
Reacting sharply to Modi's allegation, the RJD described the allegation as "half-baked" information that would expose him (Modi) in the future.
Lalu Prasad Yadav on Sunday admitted that the two-acre land on which Bihar’s biggest mall was being constructed, belonged to the company owned by his family.
Lalu Prasad Yadav's son Tej Pratap has landed in a controversy following allegations that soil from land owned by his family was sold to a zoo controlled by his ministry for Rs 90 lakh without any tender.
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