CM Nitish Kumar recommends Governor to sack Mukesh Sahani from Bihar Cabinet

CM Nitish Kumar has recommended Governor Phagu Chauhan to dismiss Mukesh Sahani from Bihar cabinet.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has recommended Governor Phagu Chauhan to sack Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) chief and state Animal Husbandry and Fisheries minister Mukesh Sahani from his cabinet. The Bihar Governor is expected to take a decision soon.

This comes soon after Mukesh Sahani claimed that he would not resign from the post of cabinet minister, adding that the final decision will be the chief minister’s.

In the 2020 Bihar polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party had allotted 11 seats to the VIP from its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) quota. The VIP contested from these seats and won 4.

Earlier this week, in a major setback for Mukesh Sahani, all three MLAs of VIP Raju Kumar Singh (Sahebganj), Misri Lal Yadav (Alinagar) and Swarna Singh (Gaura Bouram) quit the party and joined the BJP. Now, Mukesh Sahani is the only representative from his party as an MLC.

Mukesh Sahani had earlier angered the BJP after he fielded candidates on 53 seats against the saffron party in the recently concluded UP Assembly polls. Later, he again fielded candidates against the BJP in 7 out of 13 seats in the upcoming MLC elections in Bihar.

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The BJP hit back at the VIP leader by fielding its candidate from the coming Bochaha bypoll, which has been necessitated due to the death of incumbent VIP MLA Musafir Paswan.