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, Jul 30: With BJP gunning for his head after the split, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Monday said their anger against him was "misplaced" as they themselves were responsible for the break-up by breaching
Patna, July 24: The deaths of school children who consumed the mid day meal in a rural Bihar school does not look like an accident, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said Wednesday."This does not look like
Patna, Jul 21: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday demanded that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar break his silence over the mid day meal tragedy in Saran district that claimed the lives of 23
New Delhi, July 17: Amid changed political equations after JD(U) walked out of NDA, Congress has refrained from making any direct attack on Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar over the mid-day meal deaths of 23
Patna, Jul 17: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today termed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar "insensitive" as the toll of children who ate a mid-day meal at a state-run primary school in Bihar's Saran district
Chapra, Jul 17: Bihar's opposition RJD has called a bandh in Saran district today to protest the death of 11 students, mostly girls, after they consumed mid-day meal at a government primary school. RJD President Lalu
New Delhi, Jul 17: The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ramvilas Paswan yesterday slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over death of school students after consuming mid-day meal in Chhapra and demanded his resignation saying
Patna, Jul 15: Decrying the 'puppy' and 'burqa' remarks, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, in a veiled attack on Narendra Modi, said use of such language will not yield votes for the BJP, and instead
Patna, Jul 10: RJD yesterday expressed doubts over the secular credentials of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar claiming that despite parting ways with the NDA, he would eventually return to it after the next Lok
New Delhi, July 9: The probe into the multiple blasts in Bodh Gaya was on Tuesday night handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) by the Centre following a request from Bihar government.The Ministry
Patna, July 9: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has relinquished his moral authority to continue in office after steering the state back into the days of "Lalu Raj", BJP today said."An anarchy-like situation has been
Patna, Jul 8: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday rejected Opposition charge that his government had failed to act on alerts on possible terror strike at Bodh Gaya temple and said it would make
New Delhi/Patna, July 8: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Sunday said the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar had ignored intelligence reports of possible terrorist strikes in the state.The allegations
Patna, July 6: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today launched a 'virtual' election campaign in Bihar making a veiled attack against his bete noire Nitish Kumar saying those who 'betrayed' BJP will be defeated by
Patna, Jul 6: BJP campaign committee chief Narendra Modi will be giving election tips to party workers in Bihar through video conferencing today.Through the first of its kind high-tech exercise, Modi will be addressing 1,500
Patna, Jul 4: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today made a strong demand for special category status to the state and urged Union Law and IT minister Kapil Sibal to forcefully advocate his plea."You are
Patna, Jun 29: Terming as "nautanki" the visit of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to Uttarakhand, a state minister on Friday said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar does not believe in "aerial show off"."Our Chief
Patna, Jun 27: After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, it was Union Minority Affairs Minister K Rahman Khan's turn yesterday to describe Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as secular."Nitish Kumar
Patna, Jun 26: Keeping up the party's attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi yesterday lambasted him for allegedly taking Congress help to stay
Patna, June 25: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Tuesday described Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as "a very nice human being" and said his stand on secularism was laudable.Shinde's statement came nearly 10 days after Nitish
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