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- Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary has clarified that former Chief Minister Nitish Kumar resigned from his post voluntarily, rather than being forced out by the BJP.
- Choudhary reaffirmed that Kumar continues to hold the position of the undisputed leader of the NDA in the state.
- The Chief Minister also addressed political history and current government priorities, including his focus on law, order, and education.
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Samrat Choudhary
Bihar Chief Minister
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“Nitish Kumar stepped down of his own accord. We had not asked him to do so.”
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…not elbowed out by the BJP. Mr. Choudhary, who is the first BJP leader to head a government in the State, also underscored that Mr. Kumar, who was now a Rajya Sabha MP, "remains the NDA's undisputed leader in Bihar". " Nitish Kumar stepped down of his own accord. We had not asked him to do so. Of course, he did acknowledge the fact that Atal Bihari Vajpayee had let him become the Chief Minister for the first time when BJP had more MLAs than his party and that he now wanted to reciprocate the gesture,"…
“Lalu ji became the Chief Minister of Bihar thanks to the benediction of the BJP.”
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…always extended to Mr. Kumar, Mr. Choudhary also pointed out that RJD president Lalu Prasad, the saffron party's staunch adversary, too, owed his stature in politics to the "benediction" of the NDA's largest partner. " Lalu ji became the Chief Minister of Bihar thanks to the benediction of the BJP. Of course, those who witnessed that era would also recall that in doing so he snatched away the rightful claim of Dalit leader Ram Sundar Das," said Mr. Choudhary. Notably, Mr. Prasad was in the Janata Dal in 1990 when…
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Named India · Atal Bihari Vajpayee · Bharatiya Janata Party · JD(U) · Lalu Prasad · Narendra Modi · National Democratic Alliance · Nitish Kumar · Rabri Devi · Ram Sundar Das · Rashtriya Janata Dal · Samrat Choudhary · Tejashwi Yadav
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