OPINION | After Nitish The Question Bihar Must Now Face

Nitish Kumar's shift to Rajya Sabha signals a major political transition in Bihar, ending his two-decade leadership. Politics often moves through moments that appear quiet on the surface but carry the weight of deeper transitions. Bihar is living through such a moment today. For years, the question of what the state might look like after Nitish Kumar remained suspended in the background of political conversation. It was acknowledged but rarely confronted directly, as if the political system itself preferred to postpone the inevitability of that reckoning. That silence has now begun to break, and Bihar must now face the question of what its future holds without Nitish Kumar at the helm.