Saturday, 7 February 2015

Nitish Kumar To Stake Claim To Form Government In Bihar, Manjhi Not Willing To Back Down

Nitish Kumar vs Jitan ManjhiAfter Nitish Kumar was elected the leader of the JDU legislature party yesterday, he is expected to stake his claim to form the new government in Bihar. The current CM of Bihar Jitan Manjhiis not willing to step down to make way for the ex-CM.

Manjhi wrote a letter to the Governor KN Tripathi yesterday, requesting him to not to accept any proposition put forward by the JDU legislature party meeting headed by Sharad Yadav. In his letter he has pointed out that it is the Chief Minister's prerogative to call for the meeting of the party legislators. Manjhi has also recommended that 15 ministers should be removed from their posts with immediate effects.


In the meanwhile, 20 ministers have sent their resignation letters to the Governor to show their support to Kumar.

Bihar seems to be going towards a political crisis as the state cabinet has authorized Manjhi to recommend the dissolution of the state assembly, and the legislature party of the JDU has decided to remove Manjhi from the post of the leader of the legislature party.
Nitish Kumar vs Jitan Manjhi

In the current political scenario, 97 of the 111 MLAs of the party have elected Nitish Kumar the leader of the legislature party and recommended the removal Manjhi, who was handpicked by Nitish Kumar himself for the post of CM following JDU's devastating performance in the general elections nine months back.


Whatever the outcome of this political dilemma be in Bihar, the state is quite definitely headed for a constitutional crisis; the Governor must be feeling the heat about whether to deploy the state cabinet's recommendation to dissolve the house or let the new legislature party headed by Kumar to try and form a new government in the state that is going for elections in six months’ time.  

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Jitan Manjhi Not Willing To Step Down From CM's Chair, JDU Top-brass Vexed

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