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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New Delhi: LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan today shrugged off the resignation of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as a “drama” and claimed that there was internal rebellion in JD(U) and he was left with
New Delhi: As Nitish Kumar today resigned owning moral responsibility for his party's defeat in Lok Sabha polls, Congress today said the Bihar Chief Minister did this as he did not want to work as
New Delhi: Soon after Nitish Kumar resigned as Bihar Chief Minister, president of his party JD(U) Sharad Yadav today said his successor would be chosen tomorrow and made it clear that the party will tie-up
Patna: Lalu Prasad-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is watching the political situation in Bihar after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar submitted his resignation to Governor D Y Patil.“Just like everybody I have also come to know
Patna: The 2014 Lok Sabha poll brought a windfall for NDA which won 31 out of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state, while routing the JD(U) and RJD. The total tally of BJP
Patna: Mauled in the Lok Sabha elections and facing dissidence within, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today resigned but interestingly did not seek dissolution of the Assembly injecting a dramatic turn in the state politics."The
Patna: Registering a landslide victory in alliance with BJP, LJP today forecast the fall of Nitish Kumar government in Bihar shortly and a mid-term elections in the state by October-November this year.“The Nitish Kumar government
Patna: A buoyant BJP today demanded Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's resignation on moral grounds following the JD(U)'s rout in the polls.Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi had taken moral responsibility and so had other Congress chief
Patna: The Nitish Kumar government in Bihar will fall after the general election results are out, LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan said Thursday.Paswan, whose Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Patna: With the exit polls showing a poor performance by JD (U) in the Lok Sabha elections, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today dismissed the projections and said the results should be waited for.“Yah to
Patna: BJP leader C.P. Thakur Thursday said his party should form a government in Bihar if the Nitish Kumar government falls after the Lok Sabha election."The BJP should not mind taking outside support of like
Hajipur: LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan today hit out at parties raising slogans of secularism and expressed concern over growing differences between Hindus and Muslims due to vote bank politics.“All those who are raising slogans of
New Delhi: BJP today rejected charges of engineering defections in JD(U) in Bihar and claimed over 50 MLAs of the ruling party were angry with the functioning of Nitish Kumar and do not see “any
Deobaria (Vaishali, Bihar): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today took potshots at RJD president Lalu Prasad saying while he was working hard to enhance power supply and facilitate education, the opposition leader was trying to
Patna: The days of the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar were numbered, BJP today said, claiming that more than 50 JD(U) MLAs were in touch with the party and worked for its candidates in the
Patna: BJP leader Giriraj Singh today surrendered in a district court here and was later granted bail in a case of alleged hate speech lodged in Patna. Singh surrendered in the court of Judicial Magistrate
New Delhi: A huge embarrassment for Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal United leader Nitish Kumar as party chief Sharad Yadav slammed him for practicing caste-based politics.The simmering differences between JD(U) strongman Nitish Kumar and
Khagaria (Bihar): Believe it or not, there is no electricity in Lok Janshakti Party's chief Ram Vilas Paswan's native village.Although Paswan is rubbing shoulders with BJP's prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi, his native village Shaharbanni
Madhubani (Bihar): It is a tough electoral contest in this Bihar parliamentary constituency that is better known for its Madhubani paintings.Hukum Deo Narayan Yadav, BJP candidate and incumbent MP, was the first to take oath
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had a providential escape when his helicopter was caught in a raging storm and was forced to make emergency landing at Sonbarsa Raj in Saharsa district today.The incident occurred
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