Former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi on Sunday vacated 1 Aney Marg, the chief minister's official residence, four months after his ouster from the post.

Nitish Kumar had handpicked Manjhi for the post in 2014 but removed him on February 20 this year.

Manjhi shifted to 12-M Strand Road bungalow, the one that he occupied as scheduled castes and scheduled tribes welfare minister in the Nitish government.

Before leaving the Aney Marg bungalow, the founding member of Hindustani Awam Morcha Secular (HAMS), Manjhi performed yoga along with other Morcha members at the bungalow that sprawls across five acres.

The chief minister's official residence is located on a road named after the state's second post-Independence governor, Madhav Shrihari Aney, who held office from January 1948 to June 1952.

For the past three days, the process of shifting was on. On Sunday, a few employees were seen shifting files. Manjhi convened a meeting in the bungalow and spoke to the media for the last time. "I am vacating this bungalow today (Sunday) and now urge Nitish Kumar to shift here. I do not have any fascination towards this bungalow. I stayed here for four months with low heart. I am leaving the mangoes, litchis and jackfruits for Nitish. He must come here to have them," said Manjhi. Recently, Manjhi had accused Nitish of deploying policemen to guard the mango and litchi trees at 1 Aney Marg so that no one from Manjhi's family could pluck them.

After the debacle in the Lok Sabha elections, Nitish had resigned from the chief minister's post and had vacated the 1 Aney Marg bungalow on June 5 and had shifted to 2-M Strand Road bungalow. Manjhi, on the other hand, had shifted to 1 Aney Marg on June 27, 2014.

However, on August 10, Nitish again shifted to 7 Circular Road. Manjhi said: "I have come to know that Nitish still occupies the 2-M Strand Road bungalow and now I am vacating 1 Aney Marg for him. He stays at 7 Circular Road. That means he is in possession of three bungalows and if required, he must grab two to three more bungalows. I am shifting to an incomplete bungalow, where a month's repair work is left. Still, I have decided to go there."

Manjhi was accompanied by former ministers Nitish Mishra and Vinay Bihari apart from dissident JDU MLAs Rahul Sharma and Anil Kumar.

At 1.30pm, he left 1 Aney Marg. Within a few minutes, he reached 12-M Strand Road, which sported a newly painted façade. But the backyard was in bad shape. Like many other ministerial bungalows, the lawn was not prepared. Expressing disappointment, Manjhi said: "Compared to 1 Aney Marg, this bungalow is surely small and even the facilities are less. However, I am a man, who hails from a very poor family, and am accustomed to stay in small house. I am satisfied with this."

Manjhi had breakfast at the chief minister's address and lunch at the new one. However, the nameplate had not yet fixed on the gate of the bungalow, as renovation work was still on.

Nitish Mishra, on the other hand, demanded that the 7 Circular Road bungalow earmarked for former chief ministers must be vacated as soon as possible and be given to his father and former chief minister Jagannath Mishra.