“Nitish Kumar Leaves Bihar For The Rajya Sabha. What Does He Leave Behind?”, Swarajya, March 06, 2026

“Every week, in the early years of his chief ministership, Nitish Kumar held a Janata Darbar at his Patna office. Hundreds would queue in the heat outside, many having travelled overnight from remote districts with loosely drafted petitions.

Kumar would sit at a bare desk with a microphone, a pen, and a clock in his line of sight. No ornament, no excess layered bureaucracy. Easy accessibility for the public. For the traveller, what mattered more than the solution was the respect he commanded in front of the officer who got a rebuke call from the chief minister’s office.

Citizens, who had for decades assumed that the state was not for them, suddenly saw that the government was paying attention……”

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