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Manjhi recommends dissolution of Bihar Assembly
Patna, Feb 7 (IBNS) The political situation in Bihar on Saturday went to a high steam as chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi recommended to the governor dissolution of the state assembly defying the opposition of majority of his ministers.
Earlier, governor Keshari Nath Tripathi accepted Manjhi's recommendation for dismissal of two of his ministers--Rajiv Ranjan Singh Lallan and P K Shahi.
Reports said two ministers had recently protested against the transfer of IAS officers by Manjhi in alleged violation of rules. They are also said to be close to former chief minister Nitish Kumar who has now turned a foe for Manjhi.
The proposal for dissolving the Assembly was supported by seven other ministers, while 21 pro-Nitish Kumar ministers opposed it at a cabinet meeting, state Finance Minister Bijendra Yadav told reporters.
Earlier, Manjhi agreed to resign as CM to pave the comeback way for Nitish Kumar- a thing which the JD(U) top brass had been insisting on keeping in view the state assembly election late this year.
Manjhi was named as Bihar CM on May 17, 2014 after Nitish resigned following the party's electoral drubbing in the last Lok Sabha polls.
His decision to quit came after 104 out of 115 party MLAs gave their written support in favour of Nitish. But he pulled off a surprise by proposing dissolution of the assembly.
Food Minister Shyam Rajak, a close confidante of Nitish Kumar, said those who at the cabinet meeting supported the proposal to dissolve the assembly were Narendra Singh, Brishen Patel, Binay Bihari, Shahid Ali Khan, Nitish Mishra, Bhim Singh and Mahachandra Prasad Singh.
The cabinet meeting took place immediately after Manjhi's meeting with Kumar for nearly two hours of talks, which raised hopes for a patch-up between the two camps.
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