PATNA: In the dock over his alleged involvement in the kidnapping case, Bihar sugarcane minister Kartik Kumar eventually resigned late Wednesday evening hours after his portfolio had been changed by chief minister Nitish Kumar, finally ending the day full of suspense and high drama.
Kartik, a legislator from Lalu Prasad’s RJD, was initially inducted as the law minister on August 16 but had his portfolio changed as sugarcane minister earlier in the day on Wednesday apparently under heavy pressures from the BJP which had been constantly seeking for his ouster from the cabinet for facing serious criminal charges.
