India, April 14 -- In the summer of 2022, when Nitish Kumar, in one of his many U-turns, left the BJP and walked back into the RJD-Congress Mahagathbandhan, a Bihar BJP leader tied a saffron turban as part of a vow. He said he won't stop wearing it until Nitish Kumar was dethroned. A lot happened in between, but Samrat Choudhary essentially got his wish four years later, and is now chosen to be the next CM of Bihar as Nitish moves to the Rajya Sabha.

Samrat Choudhary has been chosen by the BJP legislature party as its leader, and will take oath on April 15 as the head of a new BJP-JD(U) regime in the state where the BJP has never had a CM before.

Nitish Kumar, who has dominated Bihar politics for over two decades, vacated the throne for...