[1]Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met state Governor D.Y. Patil here today and informed him that his party's alliance with the BJP in the state was over.
Meanwhile, the eleven BJP ministers in the Bihar cabinet skipped an emergency meet called by Nitish Kumar. The BJP had earlier asked Nitish Kumar to quit and seek a fresh mandate if the ruling BJP-JD-U coalition splits.
BJP leader and Minister Chandra Mohan Rai said: "Nitish Kumar should resign as chief minister because people of the state gave the mandate to the NDA in 2010."
Rai said Kumar should not continue as chief minister if his JD-U and the BJP part ways in the state.
NDA convenor Nand Kishore Yadav and Sushil Kumar Modi earlier on Saturday refused to meet Nitish Kumar.
"He had called me and Sushilji. But he has raised the issue as to whether Narendra Modi would be the Prime Ministerial candidate. The BJP national leadership is in touch with him, he should discuss this issue with the national leadership and not with us," Yadav said.
Yadav's remarks came against the backdrop of a media report that quoted Nitish Kumar as saying that BJP should publicly declare that Modi will not be its prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 polls.
JD (U) has 118 MLAs in 243-member Bihar assembly and needs the support of only four more MLAs to reach the magic figure.
There are 91 MLAS from BJP, 21 from RJD and one each from LJP and CPI in the state assembly.
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