Bihar Assembly dissolved
Nitish pre-empted; NDA cries foul

New Delhi, May 23 Feeling cheated with JD (U) leader Nitish Kumar being pre-empted from staking his claim to form the government in Bihar, the BJP-led NDA dismissed the quickfire dissolution of the Bihar Assembly in the wee hours today as a “fraud on the Constitution and murder of democracy” even as the Manmohan Singh government defended its intervention to “avoid horse-trading.”
Bihar Legislature Party leader Nitish Kumar just before a Press conference after the NDA meeting on the Bihar issue in New Delhi on Monday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal

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