Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur tendered his resignation to the acting governor, K B N Singh. This followed his failure to win the vote of confidence from the Janata Legislature Party. Singh accepted his resignation and urged him to continue in office till alternate arrangements were made. The JLP is meeting again soon to elect another leader. The defeat of Thakur, who held office for 22 months, betokens the settling up of scores with the BLD, which kept the Jana Sangh out of power in Uttar Pradesh.
Charan Singh’s Move
Mishra Death Probe
V M Tarkunde, an eminent jurist, is believed to have proposed in a report submitted to the central government that the case filed by the CBI accusing some persons of having murdered the former railway minister, L N Mishra, should be withdrawn. Also, a fresh inquiry should be ordered into the explosion which caused the death of the minister on January 2, 1975. Tarkunde, who gave his report after examining the documents connected with the case in February — at the request of the Bihar government — opines that the case filed by the CBI is not factual, and those accused of the crime have been wrongly implicated.
