Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s latest remarks about who will be the next Chief Minister of Bihar in the event of the NDA’s win in the November Assembly elections seem to be tantalising.

In reply to a question during an interview to the Aaj Tak channel, Shah, who is always measured with his words, laid out a process for selecting the CM after the polls by the NDA legislators. He however also underlined the other aspect of the story – that the NDA is heading into the elections under the leadership of incumbent CM and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar .

Normally, when a party or an alliance contests an election under a declared leader, the latter is also expected to lead the next government in the case of a victory.

But this was not how things played out in Madhya Pradesh or Maharashtra. The BJ

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