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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There was nationwide outrage over the crude and brazen manner in which Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar described a sex act between a male and a female while linking the issue of female illiteracy with population growth.
Bihar: Nitish Kumar lost his cool over the former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi during discussion during the discussion on the Reservation Amendment Bill.
More than a third of families in Bihar are making do with an income of Rs 200 or less a day, while the number of SC-ST families living on similar earnings is nearly 43 per cent, according to the Caste Survey report tabled in the state assembly.
US Singer Mary Millben slammed Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for his derogatory remarks in the state assembly. She called on a courageous woman to step up and declare her candidature for Bihar Chief Minister. Mary Millben also asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to "empower a woman to lead in Bihar."
India's number one and the most followed Super Prime Time News Show ‘Aaj Ki Baat- Rajat Sharma Ke Saath' was launched just before the 2014 general elections.
It was expected that after Nitish Kumar's apology, the row over his remarks on population control would end but the BJP leaders, including PM Modi targeted the Bihar CM escalating the matter.
Nitish has now revived the demand for granting special category status to Bihar, in order to carry out poverty alleviation program which may require Rs 2.5 lakh crore.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's comment on population control triggered a huge political outrage. NCW Rekha Sharma sought his apology and she also sought condemnation from some women politicians, including Priyanka Chaturvedi.
PM Modi said, "A big leader of the I.N.D.I.A bloc, 'Ghamandiya Gathbandhan' used indecent language for women inside Assembly yesterday. They are not ashamed. No leader of the INDI alliance said a single word against it. People who think like this about women, can they do anything good for you?".
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has become the cynosure of criticism for his derogatory remarks on the role of women in population growth. In the wake of the NCW has sought action against the JDU leader.
A video has gone viral wherein BJP woman leader Nivedita Singh is seen in tears while talking to reporters about the Bihar Chief Minister's remarks and termed it as a 'black day in the Assembly'.
The main Opposition BJP, not only created an uproar in the Bihar Assembly but also demanded Nitish Kumar's resignation. A BJP woman leader Nivedita Singh was also seen in tears while talking to reporters over the issue.
Bihar's caste survey report revealed that OBCs (27.13 per cent) and the extremely backward classes sub-group (36 per cent) accounted for a whopping 63 per cent of the state’s total of 13.07 crore, while SCs and STs together were slightly over 21 per cent.
A video of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has gone viral on social media in which he used derogatory language to explain the role of education and the role of women in population control.
As per the report, tabled by parliamentary affairs minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, the state was home to about 2.97 crore families, out of which more than 94 lakhs (34.13 per cent) were poor.
In a poll, India TV asked, 'Is there a rift in the I.N.D.I.A bloc after the statements of Akhilesh Yadav and Nitish Kumar?' Here is the public opinion.
Amit Shah was on a day-long Bihar visit today where he addressed a mega-rally in Muzaffarpur, his first after the Nitish Kumar government published the caste-census on October 2. He attacked Nitish Kumar for joining hands with Lalu Yadav and said that he has now got no way out.
Election strategist Prashant Kishor took a jibe at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar saying that he acts as if he knows everything and has stopped taking advise.
Patna: Bihar CM and JD(U) leader lambasted the ruling BJP at the Centre for trying to alter the country's history, to hide the fact that it had played no role in the struggle for independence. Turning towards Raja, he recalled his close association with the Left parties since the 1980s.
The Education Department has allegedly so far struck off names of 20,60,340 students (till October 19, 2023) from government schools after it began a drive to improve attendance since September 1, 2023.
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