India, March 8 -- As JD(U) patriarch Nitish Kumar is all set to hang up his boots as Chief Minister of Bihar, his party on Saturday claimed that a consensus has been reached for appointing his son Nishant as a Deputy CM.

JD(U) MLA Hari Narayan Singh, a close aide of Nitish Kumar, claimed that a "unanimous" decision has been taken to make the party supremo's son Nishant the deputy CM in the new Government to be formed upon his father's resignation and the same has been conveyed to stakeholders of the BJP-led NDA.

Singh, the MLA from Harnaut, in Nalanda district that Kumar himself had represented in the 1980s, also claimed that Nishant, who is entering politics in his late 40s, will be elected to the State legislative council next month. ...