India, March 22 -- Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Saturday alleged that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was giving up his post since the BJP, which has been in power at the Centre and had played a key role in securing a "manufactured mandate" for the NDA in the assembly polls last year, was out to "claim its share".

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function organised here on the occasion of Eid, Kishor reiterated that Kumar, who heads the JD(U), was "physically and mentally unfit" for ruling the State.

"I cannot say whether Nitish Kumar is leaving of his own accord or whether he is acting under pressure. But, in a way, I stand vindicated. I was being pilloried ahead of the assembly polls when I had predicted tha...