Congress reacts to Nitish Kumar's resignation, compares him to 'chameleons'

New Delhi: Following the resignation of Nitish Kumar as the chief minister of Bihar, a miffed on Sunday compared him to a 'chameleon' and said the people of the state will not forgive him.

Congress media chief Jairam Ramesh claimed the JD(U) leader's decision to return to the NDA was not at all surprising. "In changing colors, he is giving tough competition to the chameleons. The people of Bihar will give a befitting reply to him and also to those people in Delhi who are behind it," Ramesh said at a press conference in Delhi.

RJD leader and Nitish Kumar’s deputy in the outgoing government Tejaswi Yadav in a calibrated response to the developments said the “game in Bihar is not yet over.”

"I only have good wishes for the BJP. I also thank the BJP for taking Nitish Kumar's party along with them. Let them take oath today. The game is not over in Bihar," Tejashwi said in his first reaction after Nitish Kumar took oath with BJP support.

Polls strategist Prashant Kishor who worked closely with Nitish Kumar for the 2015 assembly elections said the developments in Patna are not just a reflection of JD(U) leader’s politics.

“This shows that in Bihar, all political leaders and parties are ‘paltu-rams’. It also demonstrates that leaders like Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are also doing politics in the same vein as they were earlier claiming that their door for Nitish Kumar is closed for good,” Kishor said in a press conference in Begusarai.