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, Jun 24: Congress might be cosying up with Nitish Kumar lately, but seems oblivious of the fact that the Bihar chief minister had entered into politics with a “wound” because of “unjust” treatment
Patna, June 23: With his and party leader Shivanand Tiwari's remarks causing unease to the NDA, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today asked JD(U) leaders and spokesmen to refrain from issuing statements on contentious issues
New Delhi, Jun 20: Rift in the NDA over Narendra Modi widened today with the JD(U) threatening to walk out of the alliance if a “fanatic face” is projected as NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate.Hitting back,
Patna, Jun 20: A defiant Bihar minister Giriraj Singh today dared his Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to sack him while reiterating support to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the NDA prime ministerial candidate in
Patna, Jun 19: With Nitish Kumar favouring a secular person as NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate, RJD chief Lalu Prasad today asked the Bihar Chief Minister if he was trying to put forward his own case
Patna, Jun 19: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi today echoed JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar saying that the BJP's prime ministerial candidate should be a liberal person like former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
New Delhi, Jun 19: Even as Narendra Modi is being projected as a prospective candidate of BJP for the post of Prime Minister, JD-U leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has put a spanner
New Delhi, Jun 19: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish kumar has made it abundantly clear that only a secular person would be acceptable to him as NDA's Prime ministerial candidate. In an interview to 'THe Economic
Patna, June 18: Amid division in NDA over opposing UPA Presidential nominee Pranab Mukherjee, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said he favoured a consensus on the issue of candidature for which efforts were on
New Delhi, Jun 16: With the UPA announcing the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee for the President's post, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Finance Minister have reached out to JD-U leader Nitish Kumar for support
Patna, Jun 15: Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today had a 75-minute luncheon meeting with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at the latter's official residence here. The former President and the Chief Minister were understood
Patna, Jun 14: In the backdrop of his war of words with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kuamr on Thursday asked BJP to abhere to certain principles and understanding to continue
Patna, Jun 13: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today charged the Congress-led UPA with indulging in ‘give and take' with its allies saying it was evident in the delay over announcement of its Presidential candidate.
Patna, Jun 11: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today favoured consensus for the July Presidential poll and asked the UPA government to declare its candidate at the earliest.“It will be appropriate if the next president
Patna, Jun 11: A day after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had observed that the ‘casteist' leaders had pushed Bihar to economic backwardness, his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar today asked the former to look at
Patna, Jun 9: Senior CPI leader A B Bardhan on Friday accused the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of having taken the help of the feudal forces like the Ranvir Sena to wrest political power
Patna, Jun 3: NCP today slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for failing to be tough against those who indulged in violence here while taking part in the slain Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeshwar Singh alias
Patna, June 2: The funeral procession of slain Ranvir Sena chief Brahmeswar Singh alias Mukhiya from Ara to here turned violent with the participants burning police outposts and private vehicles, damaging police and private vehicles
Bhagalpur, June 1: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today described as total success the ‘Bharat bandh' called by NDA to protest against petrol price hike. Demanding the Centre roll back hike in the prices of
Patna, May 26: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said that there seemed to be a ‘trust deficit' between the Army and the Ministry of Defence and issues should have been handled more carefully.“There seems
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