After days of speculation that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar may go to the Rajya Sabha and the State would have a new Chief Minister from the BJP and two deputy chief ministers from Mr. Kumar’s party, the JD(U), his (Mr. Kumar) party leaders on Friday dismissed such rumour and asserted that he would “remain the Chief Minister for full term and not going anywhere”.
On March 2, in an informal chat with a group of media persons in his chamber in the Assembly, Mr. Kumar said he had been to the Lok Sabha and a member of the Assembly and Council but never to the Rajya Sabha and would like to go there someday. Since then, the buzz in Bihar political circle has been that Mr. Kumar would be moved from Bihar as Chief Minister and might be named as the next Vice-President of India.
However, the very next day, Mr. Kumar clarified to media persons that he had no “personal interest” in going to the Upper House as people have mandated him to power in Bihar and he had lot of works to do in the State.
