Nitish Kumar may have to vacate Chief Ministership to make way for a nominee of the BJP. Union Ministers Nityanand Rai and RCP Singh are reportedly in the reckoning. A BJP-led Government in Bihar - after the party's UP win- will provide the double barrel effect to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2024 campaign. Or so is the thinking in the BJP camp. The plan is that Nitish Kumar will get kicked up as the country's Vice President. Given Kumar's unpredictability, the deal cannot be taken as done until the papers are signed and stamped. The link to my article in today's Deccan Herald online.

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