Hyderabad, April 16 -- Nervousness grips the top brass of the Bharatiya Janata Party as it is struggling over the chief ministerial face for Bihar, where the Assembly election is due in October-November.

If Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during the visit to Bihar on March 30 (and again later), declared that the election would be held under the leadership of none else than Nitish Kumar, in a function in the National Capital Region on April 13, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, said that the BJP would win the Assembly election under the stewardship of Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary. The latter was sharing the dais with Saini then.

On the other hand, former Union Minister of State for Health Ashwini Choubey, on April 10, sa...