Nitish Kumar is the Chief Minister of Bihar. He also served as a minister in the Union Government and belongs to the Janata Dal (United) political party. Owning responsibility for his party's poor performance in the 2014 general elections, on 17 May 2014, he resigned. However, in February 2015, he returned to office following a political crisis in the state. In November 2015, he won the state elections. On 10 April 2016, Nitish Kumar was elected as the national president of his party. On 26 July 2017, he resigned again as Chief Minister of Bihar over differences with the coalition partner RJD. Naming of Tejaswi Yadav (the deputy CM and Lalu Yadav's son) in an FIR by the CBI was the main cause of Kumar’s resignation. However, within hours, he joined the NDA coalition and secured a majority in the assembly. The very next day, he was CM, again. He belongs to a socialist class of politicians and learnt the lessons of politics from stalwarts like Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia. Between 1974 and 1977, he participated in Narayan's movement. Early life: Nitish Kumar was born in Harnaut, Nalanda district of Bihar. From Bihar College of Engineering, he got a degree in mechanical engineering in 1972. After graduation, he joined the Bihar State Electricity Board and later moved into politics.
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Patna: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday accused senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar of attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi out of “jealousy”.“Narendra Modi se jalan ke chalte Nitish Kumar arsh se pharsh par aa
Patna: The Centre today charged the Bihar government with launching a "misleading" campaign on the issue of bonus.Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan also asked the state government to ensure adequate procurement of foodgrains to
Patna: Winding up his ‘Sampark Yatra', senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today charged BJP with winning the Parliamentary elections with the help of money power.“Paani ki tarah paisa bahana bhi kam hoga kahna jitna kharchila
Gaya: Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and his predecessor Nitish Kumar showed camaraderie as they shared the dias for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, dispelling the reports of differences between them.Manjhi was present
Patna: BJP today trashed senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar's allegation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had “gone back” on his promises, and asked him to talk about the “betrayal” of mandate of 2010 by breaking
Jehanabad (Bihar): Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and his predecessor Nitish Kumar shared dais after more than two months today to dispel reports of differences between them and launched a blistering attack on BJP.The two
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today said he has no lust for power and the future person to take up office would be decided by the leadership of JD(U) and its alliance partners
Patna: Speculation is rife in Bihar's political circles over the possible ouster of Jitan Ram Manjhi as the Chief Minister after he said his days in the office are numbered.The speculation gained strength a day
Supaul: Asserting that he had given primacy to principle over coalition government while severing alliance with the BJP last year, former Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has said that he has no regrets over debacle
Kisanganj: Accusing the BJP of being an expert in “misinformation campaign”, senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today asked party workers to give a befitting reply to the saffron party's “divide and rule” policy in the
Kathihar/Purnea: Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today admitted that lack of coordination and distance between government and the party was an important reason for defeat of JD(U) in the recent general election saying it would
Banka (Bihar): Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today accused Narendra Modi government of “going back” on its poll promise to hike minimum support price of rice one-and-a-half times of input cost and warning states not
Samastipur: Amid talks of chance of merger of JD(U) and RJD to take on BJP, former Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today dismissed any such efforts and said instead attempts were being made for wider unity
Patna: BJP today slammed the former Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for using inappropriate language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and central ministers from Bihar during his ongoing ‘Sampark Yatra'. The party also alleged that
Muzaffarpur: Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today flayed rival BJP of trying to appropriate the credit for work done by others.However, this would not pay dividends for them in the coming elections, Kumar said during
Patna/Chapra/Hajipur: Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today took potshots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “failing” to respect good work done by senior party leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee by not inaugurating the NTPC unit at
Patna: Omission of the name and photograph of former Chief Minister Nitish Kumar from the site of NTPC power plant at Barh, where a unit is being dedicated to the people today, triggered a war
Bettiah: Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today slamed BJP for questioning his party alliance with RJD whose “jungle raj” he had fought earlier and questioned the saffron party's ethics in winning confidence vote in Maharashtra
Bettiah: Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today took a dig at BJP's appointment of eight ministers at the Centre.“Majority of them have been made Ministers of State and everybody knows a MOS gets work only
New Delhi: Senior JD (U) leader Nitish Kumar will be launching a 17-day yatra (march) of the state today onwards which would be a major event ahead of state Assembly elections due next year.Kumar will
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