India, April 16 -- Bihar politics has taken a definitive shift as Nitish Kumar, who remained the fulcrum of Bihar politics, has left state politics to be active in national politics. His departure ends an era where Nitish Kumar remained the pivot of Bihar politics, and no government could be imagined without him. It also marks the beginning of the Bharatiya Janata Party to lead from the front.

The Bihar politics has always been defined by caste. Any party that wants its presence in the state must ensure that it has understood the caste matrix of the State. In Samrat Choudhary  the BJP has got it right. He belongs to the Kushwaha caste which is a prominent Other Backwards Class (OBC) group in Bihar making him an OBC leader  that...