Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, along with cabinet ministers of his erstwhile regime, today sat on a protest fast at Gandhi Maidan in Patna against the Nitish Kumar government annulling decisions taken by his ministry.
Along with a few rebel Janata Dal (United) MLAs, Mr Manjhi and members of his erstwhile cabinet today sat on the fast under the statue of Mahatma Gandhi here as they protested against the Nitish Kumar government's scrapping of 34 decisions that were taken by their ministry.
Launching a scathing attack at his one time mentor Nitish Kumar, Mr Manjhi told reporters that the decision to scrap cabinet decisions was "najayaz" (illegal).
He trashed argument of shortage of fund to finance these decisions saying "actually Nitish Kumar is using money in 'pomp and show' to carve out his name instead of development."
Narendra Singh, Brishen Patel, Nitish Mishra, Mahachandra Prasad Singh and other ministers of the Manjhi cabinet, along with some dissident JD(U) MLAs like Gyanendra Singh Gyanoo, Poonam Devi, senior leaders Shivanand Tiwari and Shakuni Chaudhary sat on the protest fast with Mr Manjhi.
In the cabinet meeting on March 4, Mr Kumar had annulled 34 decisions taken by the former Mr Manjhi ministry during their last three meetings on February 10, 18 and 19.
Other decisions done away were reserving 35 per cent post for women in government services in non-gazetted posts and appointment of one "Swachhata karmi" (cleaning staff) in 46,000 villages at a payment of Rs 5,000 per month.
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