Patna, Nov 20 (IANS) “I, Nitish Kumar…” At 11:35 a.m. on Thursday, November 20, the naysayers silently watched him take the oath of office and secrecy for the 10th time as the Chief Minister of Bihar. Till then, there was a chorus of doubts that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would not allow the 74-year-old leader of the Janata Dal (U) to lead the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) state government “this time”.

A similar doubt was sown in 2020 before Nitish Kumar swore in as the head of the state government, with a mask underscoring the first such democratic process held in India in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic. However, whether the JD (U) got 43 seats (in the 2020 Assembly election) or 85 (in 2025), whether the ally returned to the Bihar Legislative Assembly as the sin

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