Union Home Minister Amit Shah made a very matter of fact statement on who the next Chief Minister of Bihar would be. Answering a query put forward by a TV journalist, Shah was candid when he admitted that the NDA in the present elections was being led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. However, he added that after the polls, the leadership issue in the event of an NDA victory, would be decided by the various alliance partners as also the newly elected legislators. In other words, the issue of who would be the next CM is open and has not been settled as yet. There has been speculation that the BJP, which is likely to once again emerge as the single largest party amongst its coalition partners at least, would take a call on the leadership question and if the Maharashtra formula was to be replic

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