India, March 31 -- Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and Bharatiya Janata Party chief Nitin Nabin resigned from the state's legislative council and legislative assembly, respectively, on Monday, weeks after both leaders were elected to the Upper House earlier this month.

The twin resignations came on the final day of the two-week period allowed under law. According to the Prohibition of Simultaneous Membership Rules, 1950 (under Articles 101/190 of the Constitution), a member elected to both Parliament and a state legislature must resign from one within 14 days.

Sanjay Gandhi, MLC, accompanied by parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary, carried Kumar's letter to the legislative council chairman Avadhesh Narayan Singh.

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