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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The ineligible farmers in Bihar were found to be income tax payees since 2020. The other reasons for ineligibility include being government employees, pensioners, and beneficiaries of other government schemes such as MNREGA.
The government had sent an invitation to the chief ministers of all the states to take part in the gala dinner hosted by President Droupadi Murmu, which took place in ‘Bharat Mandapam’ in New Delhi, the venue for the G20 Summit.
Advocate Sushil Kumar Singh has filed a case of culpable homicide in connection with the deaths of 243 people due to consuming spurious liquor. The lawyer has based his case on government statistics related to deaths caused by alcohol consumption.
According to reports, the payments were allegedly made to 273 fake beneficiaries who were not involved in the construction process of the toilets.
The CM had gone to Patna University to attend the Teacher's Day programme where he collapsed during the inauguration of the program.
Former Union Minister RCP Singh's close relative was allegedly shot at in his village Dharhara in Nalanda district. However, his condition was stable and he was referred to Patna.
Special session of Parliament: Parliament, which was last month adjourned sine die after the monsoon session, will meet from September 18 to 22 for a special session of which the Centre has not made public the agenda.
It was also decided that seat sharing formulae will be finalised by September 30 by INDIA bloc coordination committee, sources said.
As per the official release, the number of festive holidays in government schools has been reduced to 11 that were 23 between September to December.
As the race for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls hots up, the stage is set to hold the I.N.D.I.A. bloc meeting in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1 to make final decisions on a range of issues.
So far, the I.N.D.I.A. bloc has 26 parties and is eyeing to induct more regional parties. Sources said the BRS and the Akali Dal are also in touch with the alliance. The alliance will be strengthened in Telangana and Punjab if they come into the fold.
The meeting was attended by leaders of various opposition parties, including Lalu Prasad Yadav, Sharad Pawar, and Akhilesh Yadav.
Now only the Governor will appoint the Vice-Chancellors in the state-run universities.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that Lalu Prasad Yadav is being troubled unnecessarily after the CBI moved Supreme Court against latter's bail.
JDU national executive list: In this list of 98 members name of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh is missing and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has found a mention.
Giriraj Singh came down heavily on Nitish Kumar and said that he who was voted to power years ago to finish jungle raj has now become its "symbol". Various crime incidents have come to the fore in Bihar lately including the killing of a journalist in Araria.
In order to know what the public wants, India TV took public opinion on this issue through a poll. We had asked the public in our poll that 'As crime graph shoots up, is Bihar witnessing rise of fresh 'jungle raj'? '. For this, we had given three options- yes, no, and cannot say.
The Bihar Education Department has asked teachers to sell the used mid-day meal sacks at Rs 20 per piece.
The Nitish Kumar government appeared to be heading for a showdown with Bihar Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar over the freezing of the bank accounts of two officials of the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University in Muzaffarpur.
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