Nitish Kumar also reached Yogi Adityanath's swearing-in ceremony.

is on the post of Chief Minister of Bihar by

the grace of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his chair will remain till the time this grace remains.

But despite this, during the last ten days of Nitish Kumar, two steps have intensified speculation about his future.

Now BJP MLAs are publicly demanding from Nitish Kumar to leave the chief minister's chair and make a senior BJP leader the chief minister.

But first of all, those two steps of Nitish Kumar - in which the first was the angle with which he greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the swearing-in ceremony of Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow.

Due to this, he was criticized a lot publicly and on social media.

It was being speculated that Nitish was in the Uttar Pradesh elections.

After he is apprehensive about his future and because of this fear, the gesture with which he greeted has in a way sent a message of political surrender.

Nitish Kumar put an end to speculation about going to Rajya Sabha, saying, "not a personal wish"

For the time being, Nitish is worried that his chair should remain more than criticism and political credibility.

The news of his going to the second Rajya Sabha, which were words from his own mouth, also fueled the speculation of his going to the chair.

Although two of his party leaders Upendra Kushwaha and Minister Sanjay Jha tried to put an end to these speculations by tweeting, but to no avail. When asked about Nityanand Rai for the post of Chief Minister and whether the people of the upper castes would not be angry with this, he said that it will not have any effect.

This gave further impetus to the speculation that the top leadership of BJP now wants the throne of Bihar.

But nothing is decided about when its time.

A section of Bihar BJP leaders, whose numbers are increasing,

He believes that if he is removed respectfully now, then no harm will be done, in return someone of Nitish's favorite can be made Deputy Chief Minister.

At the same time, pro-Nitish BJP leaders say that even though there is no possibility of Nitish Kumar going with Tejashwi Yadav, but if he remains in the chair then what is the problem.

These leaders say that whatever the Nitish supporters argue, but now Nitish cannot become a challenger in the future of Prime Minister Narendra Modi like his old days.

His USP is over now.

But BJP leaders also argue that if Nitish does not remain in the chair, then dissatisfaction among his MLAs will also increase and there will be a two-way division.

One can be in favor of BJP and the other can be in favor of RJD.

This cannot be said in favor of BJP at present.

Yes, but if Nitish continues to sit on the chair, then as BJP MLAs criticize or challenge him, it ultimately reduces Nitish's confession.

But both BJP's supporters and opponents of Nitish agree that Nitish's future will be decided neither by the leaders of Bihar Janata Dal United nor by the demand of the MLAs of Bihar BJP for their Chief Minister, but by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. And the decision of Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be taken.

Perhaps he may even get a moratorium till the next Lok Sabha elections because he would not like to take any such step which will reduce the number of seats from Bihar.

(Manish Kumar is the Executive Editor at NDTV India...)

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