"Nitish Kumar now has no right to be Chief Minister. A person who insults women like this has no right to be a CM. He should leave the position, apologising won't work," CM Chouhan said.
After facing backlash from the opposition, Bihar police again retorted lathi-charge and used water cannons to disperse the Anganwadi protestors on Thursday.
Sarma made the remark while speaking to ANI in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district on Thursday in view of Singh's remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling him "No.1 liar".
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Navneet Rana slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his controversial remark on women and population control and said that he should immediately resign from the post.
"No one has the right to use any derogatory words against any woman. Nitish Kumar has even apologised. The BJP has a habit of taking up any topic and making an issue of it. Their people have also insulted women and used derogatory remarks against them a lot of times," Crasto said.
"I think he (CM Nitish Kumar) has lost his mental balance. His party should remove him from the Chief Minister's post. A chief minister with a lost mental balance is a threat to the state," CM Sarma said in MP's Khandwa.
"The objectionable statement that he made regarding women is not right. It is our responsibility to respect women. He has apologised for it but it does not work like that. There should be some action against him," Athawale said.
African-American actress and singer Mary Millben said Prime Minister Narendra Modi stands for women and is the best leader for India, and the progress of Indian citizens.
Terming the statement by the JDU Supremo as "highly condemnable", the BJP leader said, "I condemn the statement of Nitish Kumar on women. The manner in which Nitish Kumar of the INDI Alliance has used such language for women, he will be given a befitting reply by the women of the country. Ni
Dialling down the controversy triggered after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's remarks on the importance of women's education to control the population, JD(U) national president Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh on Wednesday said that the comments of his party's supremo were not objectionable.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday said that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's remarks on the importance of women's education to control the population is a result of his sick mentality.