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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New Delhi: BSP Supremo Mayawati Wednesday lashed back at Mulayam Singh's nod to form alliance with her party to defeat communal forces. She ruled out all possibilities and called UP's ruling party corrupt and anti-
Madhubani (Bihar): Defending his move to join hands with old rival Lalu Prasad, senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today said alliance of secular parties in Bihar would serve as a “medicine to neutralise the poison
Patna: Apparently embarrassed with the thin attendance at the maiden joint meeting of RJD chief Lalu Prasad and JD(U) senior leader Nitish Kumar after over two decades of political rivalry, the ruling party in Bihar
Patna: Senior JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar today proposed that socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia and former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur be considered for Bharat Ratna for their contribution to the country. Conferring the highest
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today slammed BJP President Amit Shah for dubbing the grand alliance formed by the JD(U), RJD and Congress as “unholy” and said it was formed to collectively take
Patna: The RJD has decided not to make any further statement on the leadership of the JD(U), Congress, RJD alliance in Bihar ahead of the bye-elections to the ten Assembly seats.The move comes after comments
Patna: Bihar's ruling JD-U's new allies RJD and Congress Thursday questioned Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's statement that Nitish Kumar will again be the chief minister if the JD-U alliance gets a majority in next
Patna: RSLP president and Union Minister of State for Rural Development Upendra Kushwaha today hit out at the JD(U) claiming that it has completely lost touch with the masses and would be blanked out in
New Delhi: As the adage goes, politics is a game of possibilities. Two leaders spitting venom against each other in the evening can very well be seen praising each other next morning because one night
Patna: BJP today claimed that JD(U) in Bihar was headed for a split between two power centres led by the incumbent Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi and his predecessor Nitish Kumar even as the ruling
Patna: A “grand alliance” among the JD(U), RJD and Congress has been formed to take on BJP in the bypolls for ten assembly seats in Bihar next month, a senior ruling party leader said today.“A
Patna: The much awaited alliance between Bihar's ruling Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress to contest the by-elections in 10 assembly constituencies was finalised on Saturday."The alliance has been finalised. We
Patna: The new found friendship between RJD,JD(U) and Congress was reflected at an Iftar party hosted by RJD president Lalu Prasad here with senior leaders of the three parties participating in it in large numbers.
New Delhi: A union minister Wednesday accused former Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar of opportunism, saying the JD-U and RJD tie-up for the bypolls shows he does not practise politics of principle.In a release, Minister
Patna: Bihar government, on Tuesday, said that the services of 1137 fixed pay teachers in schools have been terminated as they had acquired the job on the basis of fake and invalid documents and initiated
Patna: A day after JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar blamed it for destroying the 'Brand Bihar' for political dividends, the BJP today flayed the former chief minister for decimating the "feel-good changed perception" about the state
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