
JDU national general secretary KC Tyagi on Friday said that a majority of party leaders were with Sharad Yadav and Nitish Kumar.
While JDU president Sharad Yadav has called a meeting of its legislature party on Saturday, Manjhi on Friday called a meeting of the JDU legislature party on February 20.
JDU spokesperson Neeraj Kumar said party leaders have to abide by the decision of Sharad Yadav. "Those who are terming the meeting unconstitutional should read the party constitution first," he said.
The JDU has 115 legislators in the 243-member assembly.
Backing beleaguered Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, a senior Bihar minister on Friday questioned the JDU leadership's reported bid to replace Manjhi at tomorrow's state legislature party meeting and said such a move will prove to be "suicidal" for the ruling party.
"The removal of a 'Mahadalit' chief minister midway will prove suicidal for the JDU as such a move will amount to betrayal of faith of the people of Bihar in the present chief minister," state Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh said. "I don't understand as to why the JD(U) wants to prematurely remove him ahead of his term and commit suicide politically in the Assembly polls due later this year," he added.
The Minister also defended the Chief Minister's decision to declare tomorrow's proposed Legislature Party meeting to discuss his removal as 'unauthorised' and said Manjhi has rightly exercised his authority as the leader of the JDU legislature party to schedule such a meeting for February 20.
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