Janata Dal United's Kerala State President and Rajya Sabha MP Virendra Kumar has announced to resign as MP.

On Wednesday (November 29), he said that he would not tolerate being a moment with party president Nitish Kumar. He told the media, "I have decided to resign from the Rajya Sabha. I do not want to remain a Rajya Sabha MP under the leadership of Nitish Kumar because he has subscribed to the Sangh Parivar.

He said that this decision has been made to know Nitish Kumar. Virendra Kumar is considered close to Sharad Yadav.

Let us know that Virendra Kumar became the Rajya Sabha MP in March 2016. He still has a tenure of around four and a half years. In 2014, he had merged his party socialist public (democratic) party into Janata Dal United. Prior to that, from 1999 to 2010, he was in the Janata Dal secular of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda's party. After winning the Lok Sabha election on Janata Dal ticket in 1996, there was a minister in the United Front government of the Center.

Virendra Kumar is the CMD of Malayali newspaper Matribhoomi and a director in PTI. When he was asked that when will give his resignation to the Chairman of Rajya Sabha, he said that the information will be given to the media.

Let us know that when Nitish Kumar broke the Maha coalition in Bihar and decided to form the government in collaboration with BJP then Virendra Kumar along with Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar also opposed it.

While disclosing his next strategy, Virendra Kumar said that he is in talks with leaders of the JDS, aided by the Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala. Currently in Kerala, JDU is a coalition of Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF).

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