Here's the video of the sting

(With inputs from agencies)

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घूसः वोटिंग से ऐन पहले नीतीश ने अपने मंत्री को किया बर्खास्त

NEW DELHI: A day before voting in the first-phase of elections in Bihar, state cabinet minister and JD(U) leader Awadhesh Prasad Kushwaha tendered his resignation on Sunday after a video emerged showing him taking money in a sting operation.Awadhesh Kushwaha was the urban development minister in the Nitish Kumar cabinet.The sting operation showed him accepting Rs 4 lakh bribe.Kushwaha, who was seen accepting wads of currency notes in the video, purportedly for extending favours to a contractor, called it "a high-level" conspiracy hatched by his rivals."I have sent in my resignation after talking to the chief minister after allegations of accepting Rs 4 lakh cropped up," Kushwaha said."I requested the chief minister that I am a senior minister and I can not continue in the office in the wake of such serious allegations," he said.JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav said, "His (Awadhesh Kushwaha) resignation has been sent to the governor's house.""Party believes that the sting operation is true," he said."As soon as we came to know about the sting operation, I had a meeting with chief minister Nitish Kumar and state party president Bashishtha Narayan Singh. We later spoke to Awadhesh Kushwaha who tendered his resignation," Yadav said.He said Kushwaha will not be the JD(U) candidate for Pipra assembly constituency in East Champaran district where the party will field another nominee.Highlighting the promptness with which the party acted on the allegations, Sharad Yadav said, "Whether it was the Vyapam Scam, Lalitgate or Sushma Swaraj's matter, that party did not take any action."The stage is set for voting in 49 seats of Bihar assembly elections in the first phase of the five-phase poll on Monday.A total of 1,35,72,339 electorate are eligible to decide the fate of 583 candidates for the 49 seats in 10 districts in the first phase of elections.Voting will start from 7am.While in majority of seats polling would end at 5pm, in some constituencies time has been cut short to 4pm and 3pm on the basis of law and order situation feedback in the Naxal-hit areas.