Patna, Feb 10: Unfazed by the uncertainty over his continuance, Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi known as a cabinet meeting Tuesday and would possibly advocate dissolution of the state assembly, an official aforesaid.
“Manjhi has known as a meeting of his cabinet at four p.m. Tuesday. tho’ the agenda isn’t identified, he might take some massive selections, together with recommending dissolution of the state assembly,” workplacer within the chief minister office here aforesaid.
The development came daily when Manjhi insisted that he remained chief minister until he fails to prove his majority within the state assembly.
A Janata Dal-United leader near Manjhi, however, aforesaid he “may or might not advocate dissolution of the state assembly, however by holding a cabinet meeting, he needed to send a powerful massage that he’s still a chief minister”.
In the last cabinet meeting Feb seven when senior Bihar minister Narendra Singh had projected dissolution of the assembly, twenty one of the twenty eight ministers had walked out.
These ministers were thought of near former chief minister Nitish Kumar.
The battle lines have clearly been drawn as Manjhi, expelled from the ruling JD-U Mon, sought to prove his majority on the ground of the assembly and his precursor, Nitish Kumar, staking claim to create the govt., defendant Manjhi of “horse-trading”.
Things came to a boil Mon once Nitish Kumar met Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi and formally staked claim to create the govt..
He, along side a hundred thirty legislators of his JD-U, the Rashtriya Janata dal, the Congress and the Communist Party of India marched to Raj Bhavan.
Manjhi, selected by then chief minister Nitish Kumar as his replacement once he quit last year when the JD-U’s rout within the Lok Sabha polls, additionally met the governor and sought to prove his majority within the assembly however by “secret ballot”.
In the 243-member assembly, the JD-U has 115 legislators – most of whom are reportedly with Nitish Kumar. it’s backed by twenty four legislators of the RJD, 5 of the Congress, 2 Independents and one from the CPI.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has eighty eight legislators and is supported by 3 Independents.