India, March 5 -- Nitish Kumar, Bihar chief minister and Janata Dal-United supremo, will be filing nomination for Rajya Sabha on Thursday, HT has learnt. As a result, Nitish Kumar would be vacating the Bihar CM seat.

Five Rajya Sabha seats from Bihar are slated to the polls on March 16.

The elections have been necessitated by the ending terms of JD(U)'s Harivansh Narayan Singh and Ram Nath Thakur, RJD's Prem Chand Gupta and Amarendra Dhari Singh, and RLM's Upendra Kushwaha.

With Nitish Kumar likely to step down months after leading the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a landslide victory in the 2025 assembly elections, a BJP leader is expected to take over the top post. Samrat Choudhary and Nityanand Rai are the two probabl...