Later, speaking to reporters after the party's national council meeting in Delhi, he said that he has accepted the post of the national president of the party.
Addressing the media after the meeting, JD(U) leader KC Tyagi said, "After the resignation of Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh, CM Nitish Kumar has been elected as the new national president of the party..."
Amid speculations on his potential elevation as Janata Dal (United) national president, Bihar Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary dismissed all reports and said that Lalan Singh, present national president of the party, is working fine.
JD(U) leader KC Tyagi on Thursday refuted rumours of Lalan Singh's resignation as party president on Thursday, saying that Nitish Kumar, Lalan Singh and he have been together for the last 48 years, so why would he resign?
Amid speculations around the national executive meeting of the Janata Dal (United) in the national capital, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said that the Friday meeting is part of the party's tradition and it takes place once in a year.
"It was a self-destructive move by Nitish Kumar to go with RJD and announce Tejashwi Yadav's name. It's being proven. JD (U) has nowhere to go now. Nitish Kumar should get back; why would we?" the RLJD chief said this while speaking to ANI.
In what could be a major political realignment in Bihar ahead of next year's Lok Sabha elections, Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Saturday claimed that the ruling Janata Dal (United) of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will soon merge with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
JDU MLA Gopal Mandal on Friday said that the common public has no idea about the Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and hardly anyone knows about him adding that it is Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who should become the Prime Minister face for the INDIA bloc.
Taking a jibe on the fourth meeting of the INDIA bloc which took place yesterday, the alliance leader and JD(U) MP Sunil Kumar Pintu on Wednesday said that the meeting was just restricted to tea and biscuits and concluded without any discussion on any serious issue.
A member of the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee and JD-U MP Girdhari Lal Yadav on Friday alleged that the inquiry into the 'Cash-For-Query' allegations against TMC MP Mahua Moitra had not been done properly, stating that the meeting concluded in two minutes.