Six months after joining the Janata Dal (United), former Union minister Nagmani resigned from Nitish Kumar's party on Sunday, giving a call to replace the Bihar chief minister with a 'Koeri' leader in the next year's assembly polls.
Nagmani, who had joined the JD(U) in April after being sacked as RLSP national working president in February, also charged the chief minister with neglecting the Koeri community to which he belonged.
"My only objective is to install a son of Koeri to the post of chief minister of Bihar after assembly elections in 2020. I will take sanyas from politics if I fail to do it," he said after announcing his resignation from the JD(U) at a meeting attended by his supporters and community members.
Nagmani said he has dedicated his life for the betterment of the Koeris and announced to hold a mega meeting of the community in Patna on February 29 next year.
Nagmani said he would take out "Jagdeo Rath" named after his father late Jagdeo Prasad from ...
