"The JD(U) legislatures, while accepting the resignation of Nitish Kumar in May this year, had decided to make another person CM till November 2015," Manjhi said after presenting the ninth annual report card of JD(U) government of the state.
The future chief minister of Bihar would be decided by 'big leaders' Sharad Yadav, Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad if the secular alliance wins in 2015 Assembly elections, he said elaborating. Manjhi said his predecessor Nitish Kumar, for whom he was full of praise, was the 'supreme leader' of JD (U) and would be its face in Assembly elections and its first choice for the CM's post.
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