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 : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday strongly criticised MNS chief Raj Thackeray for blaming the spread of malaria in Mumbai on migrants and alleged that the latter had made such remark at
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Uncomfortable with the restoration of friendly relation between BJP and JD(U) ahead of the state assembly elections, LJP President, Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday said Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had surrendered to the RSS for
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday met Arun Jaitley and other BJP leaders at party's state unit chief C P Thakur's residence in Patna in a bid to repair the strain in the coalition
The Congress may use a riot victim Quttubuddin Ansari's photograh in which he was shown to be begging with the rioters to spare his life during 2002 Godhra riots in Gujarat "in order to expose"
Claiming widespread people's support to the 'Bharat bandh' on Monday , Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said it was high time the Centre roll back prices of petroleum products. "The bandh evoked widespread people's support... Now
Unlike RJD supremo Lalu Prasad who assailed Yoga Guru Ramdev for his inclination to float a political party, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said he would welcome the Yoga Guru if he was
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