Nitish Kumar will resign as Bihar CM after election results are out on May 23, claims Tejashwi Yadav

PATNA: The leader of opposition in Bihar assembly and senior RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Monday termed PM Narendra Modi’s recent remark against former PM Rajiv Gandhi as “atrocious.”


“We had not expected that PM will stoop to such a low level and give such an atrocious statement for a former prime minister who sacrificed his life for the nation,” Tejashwi told reporters here.

The RJD leader was referring to Modi’s recent remark at an election rally in Uttar Pradesh. Modi while slamming Congress president Rahul Gandhi during an election rally in Uttar Pradesh on May 4, said, “Your father was termed ‘Mr Clean’ by his courtiers, but his life ended as 'Bhrashtachari No 1'.”

Tejashwi said all senior opposition leaders across the country assailed PM Modi for such a low level remark against Rajiv Gandhi.

Tejashwi also claimed that the opposition’s grand alliance in Bihar would register victory on all five Lok Sabha seats that went to polls in the fifth phase on Monday. “From everywhere we are getting reports of large scale voting in favour of the Grand alliance candidates. We are sure of winning majority of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar and ruling JD(U) will face a major setback when results will be out on May 23,” he said.

Former deputy CM Tejashwi also claimed that there would a political earthquake in the state after Lok Sabha election results would be out on May 23. He said as the ruling JD(U) would face humiliating defeat on many seats its president Nitish Kumar would resign from the post of CM on May 23 or a few days later. He also claimed there would be conflict between the JD(U) and BJP after the poll results are out.