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: Senior BJP leader and Union Finance Minister on Sunday said if the NDA comes into power in the Bihar, the chief minister could be someone from the backward castes."The Chief Minister could belong to
Kishanganj: Questioning Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's 'growth with justice' model, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and MP Asaduddin Owaisi today said Muslims were languishing in jails more than in proportion to their population
Patna: Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the leaders of secular alliance accusing it of pursuing regressive agenda with "18th century mindset," Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hit back dubbing Modi an "autocrat" and said
Chhapra/Nalanda/Patna: Taking on rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad on their home turfs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today painted them as leaders with regressive agenda with "18th century mindset", attacking the Bihar Chief Minister over
Chhapra : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made a scathing attack on RJD chief Lalu Prasad on his home turf, calling him a "tantrik" (occultist) and his party "Rashtriya Jadu Tona Party" as he
Nalanda: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's home turf Nalanda will prove to be a litmus test for the JDU-RJD alliance as the dominant castes in the region - Kurmis and Yadav have for long been rivals
Patna: Helicopter-borne candidates and campaigners circling over villages and cities may have raised the battle pitch in Bihar literally to the skies, but posters and hoardings still rule here as opponents are using the visual campaign to the
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today questioned the "silence" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over burning to death of two Dalit children in Haryana."Over 100 hours & Modiji hasn't uttered a word on Dalit
Patna: Countering criticism of BJP by rival parties in Bihar polls over rising prices of pulses, Union Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Centre is taking steps to quell the crisis through imports and asked
Patna: Senior Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Manoj Jha on Saturday said BJP's Giriraj Singh was indulging in “political pornography” after being pulled out of the party's campaign trail, adding that the act of releasing
New Delhi: A video of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visiting a tantric baba has gone viral on social media.In the video, baba was seen raising slogans against Nitish's one-time arch-rival-turned-friend RJD chief Lalu Prasad
Chapra: Rejecting the Gujarat model of development, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday alleged that Gujarat has the largest population of malnourished women and said they do not need the model which "cannot adequately
Patna: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has anticipated the strengthening of an anti-BJP front in centre after Bihar elections.In an interview to Economic Times, Kumar said, “There will be a consolidation of an anti-BJP front
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has blamed his former deputy Sushil Modi for his rift with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.In an interview to a news channel, Kumar said that he was never in the
Patna: With a finger on the pulse of voters, rivals alliances in election-bound Bihar today served each other liberal portions of blame for rapidly vanishing pulses from the platter of the common man due to
Patna/New Delhi: As prices of pulses skyrocketed further, the Centre and the government of Bihar where elections are underway were today locked in a blame game even as Congress raised questions on the policies of
Nalanda (Bihar): Nitish Kumar today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring back 'purane din' (old days) of the people, as the Bihar chief minister hit back at the BJP, which blamed him for the
Ghoshwari-Baijna (Mokama): No government will be formed in Bihar without the support of Third Front, says controversial Madhepura MP Pappu Yadav stressing that the the other two alliances are unlikely to get majority in the
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today used Narendra Modi's 'Na khauanga na khane doonga' remark to hit out at him over spiraling price of pulses and also attacked him for "not being bothered" about
Patna: Accusing Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad of trying to turn the state assembly polls into a "battle between backwards and upper castes", BJP president Amit Shah today said his
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