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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