Patna (Bihar) [India], October 3 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has accepted the resignation of Agriculture Minister Sudhakar Singh, officers stated on Sunday.
In line with the officers of the Chief Minister’s Workplace, after Sudhakar Singh, Agriculture Ministry was given to Tourism Minister Kumar Sarvjeet. On the identical time, Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav would maintain the extra cost of the Tourism Ministry.
Earlier on Sunday, Bihar agriculture minister Sudhakar Singh submitted his resignation to the federal government. Bihar Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president and Sudhakar’s father, Jagdanand Singh confirmed, including that Sudhakar resigned over ‘injustice’ to the farmers of the state.
“India is not any totally different from the farmers. Gandhi and Shastri understood this and everybody ought to perceive this. Fortuitously, the agriculture minister (Sudhakar Singh) not solely understood this however sacrificed for them,” Jagdanand stated.
Singh additional claimed that killing the Mandi regulation (Agriculture Produce Advertising Committee Act) has destroyed the farmers of the state.
“Somebody wants to face up for the farmers and the injustice being performed to them. The Agricultural Minister took this up,” he added.
Taking a dig at Sudhakar Singh’s resignation, Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) chief and former deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi stated that the second wicket of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ has fallen inside two months.
The allusion was to Singh’s resignation which got here a few month after one other RJD minister Kartik Kumar resigned from the cupboard.
Bihar Minister Kartikeya Singh, who was moved from the Ministry of Legislation has an excellent arrest warrant towards him in a kidnapping case for which he was granted interim safety until September 1 by a Danapur court docket.
Sushil Modi stated that Jagdanand and his son Sudhakar Singh brazenly known as Nitish Kumar’s agriculture roadmap a failure.
“They spoke of corruption within the agriculture division and uncovered its “zero tolerance on corruption” and in addition opposed the choice to abolish the Mandi Act,” Modi added.
Modi additional stated, “Jagdanand, a confidant of RJD’s First Household, ran the federal government behind the scenes after Lalu Prasad went to jail within the fodder rip-off and Rabri Devi grew to become the Chief Minister. Now it stays to be seen who must bow down within the confrontation between Jagdanand and Nitish Kumar.”
Stirring an argument, final month, Sudhakar informed a gathering in his constituency that his division was infested with “thieves” and he felt like a “chief of theft”. He later stated to the media that he stood by what he had stated.
“There’s not a single wing of our (agriculture) division that doesn’t commit acts of theft. As I’m the in-charge of the division, I change into their Sardar. There are a lot of different chieftains above me too. The federal government has modified however the working type remained the identical. Every thing is identical as earlier than,” he had stated.
With out naming, Singh additional attacked Janata Dal (United) MLA from Chainpur and the Minority Affairs Minister Mohammad Jama Khan saying that the latter had been a Minister within the authorities even earlier than however the situation of the individuals within the area hardly modified. (ANI)
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