After Nitish Kumar resigned as the Chief Minister of Bihar, Lalu Prasad's daughter, Rohini Acharya, criticized him for joining the BJP-led alliance despite his previous statement of not doing so. She called it "garbage going back into the dustbin". Nitish Kumar's resignation marked the end of the government in place. The BJP named Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha as the leader and deputy leader, respectively, of the legislature party.
