Overview
- Nitish Kumar, who left for New Delhi on Thursday, will be sworn in as a Rajya Sabha member on Friday, April 10, starting the formal transition.
- JD(U) leader Vijay Kumar Chaudhary said Kumar will resign after he returns to Patna, with the timing aligned to the end of Kharmas on April 13, a period many avoid for major decisions.
- BJP and NDA leaders plan meetings in Delhi on Friday to finalise the next chief minister and the steps to form the new government.
- Deputy chief minister Samrat Chaudhary is widely reported as the frontrunner to lead the state, while talk of Nitish Kumar’s son Nishant joining the new team remains unconfirmed.
- Formation of the new cabinet is expected around April 15–16, which could give the BJP its first chief minister in Bihar and set a benchmark against Nitish Kumar’s two-decade record of running coalition governments.