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: The Grand Alliance today routed the BJP-led NDA in Bihar to score a landslide two-thirds majority in the Assembly giving Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a third term in office in a battle in which
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister of two terms Nitish Kumar wanted to quit politics and start a business after two successive defeats in the assembly elections of 1977 and 1980, according to a new book on
New Delhi: Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad of demanding a review of caste-based reservation to make room for religion based reservation.The allegations triggered a sharp reaction from Bihar CM
Mathura: Union Minister Giriraj Singh has accused RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of diverting people's attention from the basic issue of development and said that BJP-led NDA would get
Patna: BJP stoutly defended its advertisement on beef today, a day ahead of the last phase of assembly polls in Bihar saying it has rightly questioned Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's silence on the controversial remarks
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad should "go to Pakistan", Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ashwani Kumar Choubey said on Wednesday."Lalu and Nitish Kumar should go to Pakistan after Bihar assembly
Darbhanga (Bihar): Bihar Chief Minister raked up Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'DNA' remark on the last day of campaigning for the final phase of polling and asked the people to reply to the barb by
Patna: Lalu Prasad, the irrepressible chief of the RJD, has set a record of sorts by addressing over 200 election rallies across the state in his inimitable style during the ongoing staggered Bihar election.Lalu, in
Darbhanga: After BJP chief Amit Shah's 'firecracker in Pakistan' comment, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday returned the fire, saying Mumbai and Amritsar will witness "maximum fireworks" if BJP loses Bihar Assembly polls, alluding to
Patna: A day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar sarcastically asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to educate his ministers on the functioning digital world, Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy today alleged that a GoogleAd was
Katihar/Madhubani: Fuelling further the bitter quota debate in Bihar polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused his rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad of having come together in July 2005 to demand a review of
Madhubani: Holding out a promise of development in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a fresh attack on Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar, saying 'jungle raj' now has a twin brother in 'Jantar Mantar'
New Delhi: Bihar will witness fourth and penultimate phase of Assembly polls on November 1, 2015. If there is one party which has the maximum state in this phase then it's the Bhartiya Janata Party
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday said he was ready to debate on the issue of reservation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi."Modiji I'm ready to debate the issue of reservation with you any
New Delhi: Former Supreme Court Judge Justice Markandey Katju on Saturday said the Grand Alliance headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will "sweep the (ongoing assembly) polls in Bihar by at least a two third
New Delhi: Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy and senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi faced flak from twitteratis on Friday after they posted screenshots of a Pakistan media website displaying Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's election
Patna: Attacked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the quota isue, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today hit back accusing Modi of brazenly using "divisive language" and warned he may "lose" India in his "desperation" to
Muzaffarpur/Gopalganj: In a sharp counter-attack on Nitish Kumar over his "outsider" jibe at him, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked him whether he would call Congress chief Sonia Gandhi also a 'bahri', asserting that he
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attacked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his 'purane din' remark saying 'all levels of decency have been broken and poor language is being used by those who
New Delhi: Bihar Assembly elections are proving to be a ‘litmus test' for the political future of both Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Both these leaders have carefully nurtured
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