Nitish Kumar's way to the Rajya Sabha – Resigned from the Bihar Legislative Council
On April, the Bihar Chief Minister is expected to take oath as a member of the Rajya Sabha.
Nitish Kumar clears his path to the Rajya Sabha after resigning from the Bihar Legislative Council, signaling a strategic shift in his political trajectory.
According to council chairman Awadhesh Narayan Singh, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has resigned from his association in the State Legislative Council on Monday, March 30, 2026. He is the Bihar’s longest-serving chief ministers. The move signals more than a regular change; it hints at the closing of an age and the potential rise of new leadership. The BJP is poised to stake maintain to the best post with one of its own.
The JDU MLA shared on X, "Yes, he is doing so. Everyone wanted the same (that he should not resign from the CM post), but he did not agree".
This comes in the middle of growing speculation about Nitish Kumar's supposed unwillingness to step down from the wheel of the state government to become a Rajya Sabha MP, a position that several political observers argue will decrease him to a mere figurehead and considerably decrease his party's regional influence.
Earlier this week, on the Bihar Legislative Council, his ally-turned-rival, RJD working president Tejashwi Yadav, maintained that Nitish Kumar had "no wish" to be elected to the Rajya Sabha but was "forced" to do so at the example of JD(U)'s main coalition partner, the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The former deputy CM was quoted as saying by Bihar CM news in the state Assembly, "We have always been saying that the BJP wants to finish off the JD(U). Nitish Kumar has been forced to enter the Rajya Sabha as part of this design. He had no wish to relinquish the chief minister's post".
Nitish Kumar had made his choice to resign as CM on March 5, 2026, while showing his long-held "desire to become a member of both Houses of the Bihar Legislature and both Houses of Parliament."
