JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar on Thursday announced that he will be contesting the Rajya Sabha polls, bringing the curtain down on his tenure as the longest-serving Chief Minister of Bihar. With Kumar stepping down after leading the ruling NDA to a landslide victory in the 2025 assembly elections, a BJP leader is expected to take over the top post.
But what made Nitish Kumar,who has led the state since 2005, except for brief periods in between, so integral and indispensable to Bihar?
