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Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar handed over his resignation to Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar at around 11 am Sunday, and is likely to be sworn-in as CM for the ninth time, later in the day, this time leading an NDA government in the state...
After that, Nitish will stake claim to form the next government, the sources said...
A day earlier, Kumars bid to join the BJP-led NDA seemed to have got delayed because of resentment among a section of BJP MLAs who were to give signatures of support to the leader...
He was expected to drive to the Raj Bhawan around 9 pm Saturday to resign and stake claim to the government after obtaining signatures of support from 78 BJP MLAs, but could not go because a meeting chaired by BJPs organisational secretary Vinod Tawde in the presenceof senior party leaders could not get the required number of signatures...
At the meeting, quite a few legislators indicated that the party was losing a golden chance of showing that it was capable of winning polls against the combined force of (RJD chief) Lalu Prasad andNitish in Bihar..
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