Nitish Kumar to file Rajya Sabha nomination tomorrow, Amit Shah likely to visit Bihar: Reports

Nitish Kumar

• Nitish Kumar likely to file Rajya Sabha nomination Thursday
• JD(U) to meet after nomination; Kumar expected to resign
• BJP may choose new Bihar CM as speculation grows

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What can be considered a big political development in Bihar, chief minister Nitish Kumar is most likely to file nomination for Rajya Sabha on Thursday, leaving the state to brace for a new chief minister.

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

Shah, reportedly 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.

Bihar's power corridors are abuzz with speculation over who will now succeed Kumar as the chief minister.

According to sources, quoted by News 18, while the BJP in Bihar is talking about Nitish giving up the chief minister’s chair, the JD(U) seems divided with one section vehemently against any kind of power transfer.

The news of his nomination came as a meeting was underway at his residence in Patna between him, JD(U) national working president Sanjay Jha, and Bihar minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary. Nishant, as state minister Shrawon Kumar said earlier, will be entering active politics with a leading role in the party. “We gave away the CM position to the JD(U) last time as well when we had way more seats than them," the BJP sources told News18.

From the BJP’s deputy CM Samrat Choudhary to “old hand" Sanjiv Chaurasiya and Union minister Nityanand Rai – many names are being spoken of in party circles as a probable CM face.

In fact, amid intense speculation over a potential leadership change in the state, Choudhary stayed put in state capital Patna instead of visiting his constituency of Tarapur to celebrate Holi as is his usual practice.

Following the NDA’s landslide victory in the 2025 assembly elections — securing 202 out of 243 seats — the BJP emerged as the single-largest party for the first time with 89 MLAs.

Political experts believe while the BJP upheld its pre-poll promise to back him, the current landscape is increasingly viewed as a “post-Nitish era" in waiting, where the party seeks to install one of its own to reflect its status as the dominant force.