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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Nitish Kumar, after the inauguration, also inspected the facilities available in the bungalows -- built under the housing scheme for legislators, an official release here said. A total of 75 duplex bungalows for the MLCs are set to come up on 18.56 acres at R-block Digha road in the state capital
Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, praised Bihar for efforts to fight poverty, disease. Gates said "few places have made more progress in fighting poverty and disease than Bihar."
The 74-year-old Singh, who once worked at NASA and California University, breathed his last at PMCH after prolonged illness.
Justice V Kameswar Rao said it is not necessary to summon Kumar, who is a defendant in the suit, as the reasoning given for calling him as a witness being so-called 'principal actor' and a bona fide act is "not convincing"
Shortly after Nitish Kumar addressed his party's national council following his reelection as party president for a fresh three-year term, the JD(U) reminded the BJP that the Bihar chief minister has given the saffron party a proportionate representation in the state government.
Many parts of the Bihar capital were inundated following downpour for three consecutive days from September 27 onwards.
Singh, who has been repeatedly criticising the Bihar government for its "inept" handling of water-logging in several parts of Patna following heavy rainfall, sought the forgiveness of 'Sanatani' (devout) Hindus for the adverse impact of the "man-made" disaster on Durga Puja festivities.
Death toll in the Bihar's rain-related disasters on Tuesday mounted to 30 even as relief and rescue operations gathered momentum.
At the meeting, Kumar issued instructions for the evacuation of people from villages in which waters have entered through swollen rivers and their relocation to relief camps.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said that all the villages and hamlets would be connected with metallic roads by next year. The target forms part of "seven resolves" which the state government has adopted as policy of good governance.
Former Union minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, one of the national vice-presidents of the RJD, spoke disapprovingly of the remark made by Yadav jailed founding president Lalu Prasad's younger son at a meeting of the party's minority cell here last week.
Addressing the state council meeting of the JD (U), Nitish Kumar had said his political detractors who "know nothing, are ignorant of even a, b, c of politics but still get lots of publicity".
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday predicted a landslide victory for the NDA in the assembly polls due next year, and asserted that those trying to create a rift between his JD(U) and alliance partner BJP will be in trouble.
Modi, a senior BJP leader, made the remarks on his official Twitter handle in an apparent rebuff to party MLC Sanjay Paswan, who has caused a flutter by having advocated, two days ago, a change of guard after the assembly polls in the state next year.
A JD(U) block president's son was found dead at his friend's residence in the state capital, police said on Sunday, with his family alleging he was killed by his friends.
On Teachers' Day, thousands of contractual teachers descended on the streets with their demand of 'equal work, equal pay' and raising slogans against the Nitish Kumar government here on Thursday.
Nitish Kumar also said that Arun Jaitley's birth anniversary will every year be celebrated as a state function.
Manjhi, who had served as the chief minister from May, 2014 to February, 2015, made a statement to this effect on Thursday here while interacting with the media and also spoke about the inexperience of RJD heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav the younger son of Lalu Prasad, already projected by RJD as its chief ministerial candidate.
JD(U) is a recognized state party in Bihar and Arunachal Pradesh with 'Arrow' as its reserved symbol.
Modi-led NDA government's key ally, Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) JD-U on Monday opposed the Centre's resolution on Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and said they have different thinking. “We boycott the bill,” JDU leader KC Tyagi said in parliament. He also said that party chief Nitish Kumar will carry forward the tradition of JP Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia and George Fernandes.
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