Major shift as Nitish Kumar heads to Rajya Sabha; BJP set to have its first Bihar CM

New Delhi- The grand rule of the socialist troika of Bihar, Lalu, Ram Vilas and Nitish era is finally going to be over in Bihar. On Thursday, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar will file nomination for the Rajya Sabha.

Kumar had never been a member of the upper house. Union home minister Amit Shah is going to Bihar on Thursday and will be present in the nomination filing of Nitin Nabin and Nitish Kumar. After filing the nomination, JDU will have a legislative party meeting where all the MLAs will be present and Nitish Kumar will announce his resignation.

Apart from Nitish, union minister Ramnath Thakur will also file the nomination from the JDU quota.


Sources confirm ET that the next chief minister will be from the BJP and JDU might get a deputy CM post.

Shah will hold a BJP core group meeting where he will discuss the next political process. The party will later appoint an observer to elect the new legislative party leader who will swear in as chief minister.

BJP is going to have its chief minister for the first time. Nitish Kumar took oath as CM in November last year and now he will be in Rajya Sabha. Kumar has been CM of Bihar for 10 times and his departure to the upper house would open the door for a new leadership within the JDU.

BJP has 85 MLAs in Bihar while the JDU has 85 MLAs. In the past too, despite having more MLAs, BJP offered the leadership role to Nitish Kumar and played second fiddle.

With a chief minister, the BJP will have a leading position in the most wanted eastern frontier of the country.