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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sacked Mukesh Sahani, a cabinet minister and founding chief of Vikassheel Insaan Party, who was brought into the National Democratic Alliance in the thick of the last assembly elections by the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is now at odds with him.
According to highly placed sources, Kumar recommended Sahani’s expulsion from the cabinet to the governor in the evening, after a written submission to the effect by the BJP, hours after the minister for fishery and animal husbandry was given the ultimatum to withdraw forthwith a recent notification.
Sahani, a former Bollywood set designer, had entered the BJP’s bad books after he repeatedly attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath while campaigning for assembly elections in the adjoining state where his party contested more than 50 seats but sunk without a trace.
A self-proclaimed leader of the fishermen’s community who uses the nickname ‘son of Mallah,’ Manjhi had twisted the knife by fielding candidates against a number of BJP nominees in elections for 24 legislative council seats.
