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Monday, May 19, 2014

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Resigns Saturday May 17,2014


Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar submitted his resignation to Governor D.Y. Patil on Saturday, a day after his party Janata Dal (United) suffered a drubbing in the 2014 Lok Sabha Election 

The JD (U) won only two of the 40 Lok Sabha seats from Bihar.
BJP won 22 seats and its allies, the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) won six and Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) won three seats. 
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) won four, while its ally Congress bagged two and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) managed to win one seat

 In 2009, it won 20 seats in alliance with the BJP.

Nitish Kumar has been in the saddle since Nov 24, 2005, and won a second term in the 2010 assembly elections. 

Nitish  Kumar, an engineer by education, has been an MP for six terms and has also served as a union minister


 

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