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Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Saturday (March 21, 2026) alleged that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was giving up his post since the BJP, which has been in power at the Centre and had played a key role in securing a “manufactured mandate” for the NDA in the assembly polls last year, was out to “claim its share”.
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function organised here on the occasion of Id, Mr. Kishor reiterated that Kumar, who heads the JD(U), was “physically and mentally unfit” for ruling the State.
“I cannot say whether Nitish Kumar is leaving of his own accord or whether he is acting under pressure. But, in a way, I stand vindicated. I was being pilloried ahead of the assembly polls when I had predicted that even if the NDA wins, he will not be made the Chief Minister,” said Mr. Kishor, who is a former JD(U) vice president.
The 47-year-old also said, “My prediction that the NDA could lose may have been off the mark. But about Nitish Kumar, who is visibly unfit, physically and mentally, I have been proven right. Why else would a Chief Minister step down barely a few months after his coalition got a brute majority in the Assembly?”.
-PTI