1. Manmohan Singh resigns !
i. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh met President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Saturday afternoon and submitted his resignation of his Council of Ministers.
ii. 81-year-old Dr. Singh drove to the Rasthrapati Bhavan from his official residence 7, Race Course Road, to submit the resignation of his Council of Ministers.
iii. "The President has accepted the resignation of Manmohan Singh and has requested him and his colleagues to continue till the new government is formed," a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said.
iii. "The President has accepted the resignation of Manmohan Singh and has requested him and his colleagues to continue till the new government is formed," a Rashtrapati Bhavan statement said.
2. Nitish Kumar resigns as Bihar CM
i. Bihar Chief Minster Nitish Kumar has resigned. He submitted his resignation to the Governor today owning moral responsibility for the defeat of his party JDU in the polls. The strength of his party has been reduced to two in the recent polls.
ii. LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan, who had an alliance with BJP, had earlier forecast the fall of Nitish Kumar government in Bihar shortly and a mid-term elections in the state by October-November this year.
iii. He said the Nitish Kumar government will fall on its own in the next 2-3 months and the people will have to give a fresh mandate for a good state government.
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