A day after he resigned as Chief Minister, JD(U) MLAs on Sunday unanimously chose Nitish Kumar as their leader and insisted that he should withdraw his resignation. While Nitish initially rejected their requests, he later sought a day's time after party MLAs continued to protest against his decision. The JD(U) legislature party is set to meet again on Monday to take a final call.br br br JD(U) president Sharad Yadav, who had earlier justified Nitish's decision to resign and said he should not accept re-election as legislature party leader, faced protests at the meeting. He is learnt to have told MLAs that pressure must not be put on Nitish to become CM again. However, the MLAs refused to discuss any other name.