Nitish Kumar indicators management in JD(U) as son Nishant emerges as ‘consensus chief’
2 min learnPatnaUp to date: Apr 21, 2026 04:17 AM IST
Former Bihar chief minister and Janata Dal (United) nationwide president Nitish Kumar on Monday met occasion legislators, who authorised him to elect the occasion’s legislature occasion chief. He additionally stated he would journey throughout the state to collect suggestions on key NDA schemes began throughout his tenure.
This was the primary assembly of JD(U) legislators since Nitish Kumar demitted workplace as chief minister on April 14.
Nitish Kumar’s son, Nishant Kumar, who just isn’t a legislator, didn’t attend the assembly. Nevertheless, he might search nomination to the Bihar Legislative Council in opposition to upcoming one-third vacancies. Although the occasion has appointed two deputy chief ministers — Bijendra Prasad Yadav and Vijay Kumar Choudhary — neither has been chosen because the legislature occasion chief.
JD(U) MLC and spokesperson Neeraj Kumar, who attended the assembly, instructed reporters: “Nitish Kumar attended the assembly to maybe inform us ‘Major hoon na’ (I’m nonetheless there). The occasion handed a decision thanking him for a sequence of pioneering schemes launched throughout his tenure as CM. We additionally authorised him to elect our legislature occasion chief.”
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Quoting Nitish Kumar, he added: “After a while, he would transfer across the state together with NDA leaders to hunt suggestions on key schemes, together with ongoing programmes underneath Saat Nischay-3”. He stated Nitish Kumar would divide his time between Delhi and Patna and, moreover his duty as a Rajya Sabha MP, would proceed to information the NDA authorities in Bihar.
Requested about Nishant Kumar’s function, Neeraj Kumar stated: “There are not any two methods about Nishant Kumar being the consensus chief of the occasion after Nitish Kumar.”
Union minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh, occasion nationwide working president Sanjay Kumar Jha, and the 2 deputy chief ministers additionally attended the assembly.
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The JD(U) assembly assumes significance because the occasion has transferred energy to ally BJP after its lengthy dominance in state politics, and sought to handle discontent over the shift inside its cadre.
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