Nitish Kumar is India's future prime minister, according to the JD(U), while cohort allies deflect questions.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's repeated assertions that he does not seek the prime ministership or any other post within the INDIA bloc appeared to have been disregarded by his JD(U) on Tuesday, when party president Rajiv Ranjan Singh told a large gathering in his stronghold Nalanda, "Your leader is now ready to lead the country."

The JD(U)'s promotion of an outwardly reticent Nitish as the INDIA alliance's....