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Nitish Kumar to withdraw resignation

July 17, 2003 09:09 IST

Railway Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said he would withdraw his resignation from the Cabinet.

"I will go to Rail Bhawan around 11:00 am," Kumar said in New Delhi.

Kumar had resigned on Monday following sharp differences within the Samata Parliamentary Party.

On Tuesday, in an exclusive interview to rediff.com's Tara Shankar Sahay, Kumar said there was no question of withdrawing his resignation. "I will work without ministerial position or party responsibility," he had said. "In this way, it will solve everybody's problem in the party. I will also be a free bird. Everybody will be satisfied."

Samata MP Prabhunath Singh, who was said to have been the provocation for Kumar's decision, met him for two hours on Wednesday night and urged him to take back his resignation.

After the meeting, Singh had indicated that Kumar would withdraw his resignation, as all differences had been resolved.


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Sub: Nitish Kumar's resignation

It seems the politicians dosent know the meaning of Resignaton, specially Nitish Kumar and his mentor.


Posted by Denis





Sub: shame

Mr. Nitish, I know your resignation is big drama, but you are chetimng whole country by not ruuning railways effieciently and effectively. Do something to ...


Posted by krishna





Sub: A sad precedent, a bad precedent.

It is the PMs' prerogative in any parliamentary democracry not to accept the resignation of a Minister and ask him to continue unless there are ...


Posted by chanakya





Sub: Politics !!!

This is once again a clear example of dgraded indian politics. This is one kind of tactism to gain simpathy from the public. Nitishkumar should ...


Posted by shashidhar





Sub: Resignation of Nitish Kr

It was a very high rated drama.Every body knew that he will withdraw his resignation, because he is a power loving person. He should resign ...


Posted by Sandip Sarkar




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