Nitish Kumar has resigned as the Chief Minister of Bihar. The decision to quit came after a meeting of JDU MLAs on Wednesday evening. Nitish Kumar submitted his resignation to Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi. After the resignation, Nitish Kumar said that he waited for clarifications from RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Tejashwi Prasad, but received none.
Soon after CM’s resignation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended congratulations to Nitish Kumar for ‘joining fight against corruption’.
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Earlier in the day, RJD President Lalu Prasad ruled out resignation by his son Tejaswi Prasad Yadav as Bihar's deputy chief minister in the wake of the CBI filing an FIR against him as an accused in land-for-hotels case.