Seeking to steal a march over Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, Nitish Kumar-led Janta Dal-United announced on Thursday that its five Lok Sabha members from Bihar will resign on Friday to protest the attacks on North Indians in Maharashtra.
"The party MPs will submit their resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee tomorrow morning," party
parliamentary leader and member of Parliament Prabhunath Singh told news persons in Delhi.
The decision has come at a time when Prasad was collecting resignations from his party's MPs in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha as also members of legislative assemblies and legislative councils and had announced to take a decision in this regard by November 15.
Prabhunath Singh said that there was no option left for his party but asking its Lok Sabha members to resign as