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: Targeting Nitish Kumar, BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today alleged that the Bihar Chief Minister had failed to prevent the terrorist attack at Bodh Gaya last year because of ‘vote bank' politics.
New Delhi: BJP today said it apprehended security threat to party rallies in the wake of Naxal attack on mobile towers in Gaya ahead of election meetings of Narendra Modi.Maoists blew up two mobile towers
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Wednesday targeted BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's Gujarat model of development, saying over two lakh children were farming cotton as labourers instead of going to schools."Over two lakh
Patna: Star BJP campaigner Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi are set to hit the campaign trail in Bihar along with the state's two best known faces: Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad.Modi, the BJP's
Patna: Filmmaker Prakash Jha said Wednesday that he was contesting the Lok Sabha polls from West Champaran in Bihar at the request of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.He said it was because of Nitish Kumar that
Patna: Millions in Bihar celebrated Holi Monday with traditional fervour. But Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was not one of them, and it was a low key Holi for RJD leader Lalu Prasad.Nitish Kumar did not
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today decided not to celebrate Holi festival due to the death of 23 children after eating mid-day meal in a Chapra school last year.“Since the tragedy in July last
New Delhi: JD(U) today announced its first list of 15 candidates for Bihar and four other states fielding a former bureaucrat K P Ramaiah from Sasaram against Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar.Sasaram is a reserved
Patna:Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is using Facebook to target BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.In his latest post, Nitish Kumar has compared Bihar to Gujarat and had questioned whether Bihar is better or
Patna: RJD chief Lalu Prasad has turned to vaastu shastra ahead of the Lok Sabha polls to rid himself and his family of misfortune and ill-luck and to ensure good electoral performance of his party.With
Patna: Hours before a crucial meeting between JD(U) president Sharad Yadav and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for shortlisting candidates for Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, some party leaders met the former and protested against allotment
Patna: Bihar's former deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi today rubbished Nitish Kumar's claims of willing to resign from the Chief Minister's post after cancelling dinner for BJP leaders in 2010 and described it as
Patna: Justifying the decision to join hands with BJP, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) President Ramvilas Paswan today said secularism and communalism were just “poll ploys”. Claiming that a wave was blowing across the country in
Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Tuesday inducted legislator Lessi Singh into the council of ministers and said the next cabinet expansion would be after the Lok Sabha polls.Governor D.Y. Patil administered the oath
Patna: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar today inducted Lacy Singh, MLA from Dhamdaha in Purnia district, as minister in his cabinet, after the exit of Renu Kushwaha. Governor D Y Patil administered the oath of
Patna: With rebel party leader Ramkripal Yadav all set to join BJP, RJD President and his mentor Lalu Prasad today said “greedy” persons were hankering to become MP and PM while he was engaged in
Patna: Bihar's Industry and Disaster Management Minister Renu Kumari Kushwaha Monday night resigned from the Nitish Kumar cabinet and is set to contest the Lok Sabha polls either on an LJP or a BJP ticket.Leader
Purnea: The war of words between Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar escalated today with the BJP leader saying the Bihar Chief Minister's “ambition” to become Prime Minister drove him to split from BJP and accused
Purnea (Bihar): Rahul Gandhi is behaving as if he has come from planet Mars, Narendra Modi today said taunting the Congress leader for levelling accusations on others, instead of accounting for his party's 10-year rule
Patna: Hardening his stance, rebel RJD leader Ramkripal Yadav today said he would contest the Patliputra Lok Sabha seat, from where party chief Lalu Prasad has fielded his daughter Misa Bharti."I will contest from Patliputra,"
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