Bihar CM Nitish Kumar resigns from legislative council ahead of Rajya Sabha entry

NEW DELHI: Bihar main curate Nitish Kumar connected Monday resigned from the legislative council, days aft securing a berth successful the Rajya Sabha, marking quiescent but consequential displacement successful Bihar politics.For Bihar’s longest-serving main minister, the determination signals much than a regular transition, it hints astatine the closing of an epoch and the imaginable emergence of caller leadership, with the BJP poised to involvement assertion to the apical station with 1 of its own.Kumar's departure from authorities authorities besides draws the curtain connected his decades-long rivalry with Lalu Prasad Yadav. Now mostly absent from progressive authorities and barred from contesting elections, Lalu continues to helm the RJD, with Tejashwi Yadav arsenic its main look and besides person of the absorption successful the assembly.On Sunday, Mokama MLA Anant Singh confirmed that Kumar would measurement down connected Monday.