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.
Read MoreBihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who was in Banka district after the inspection of a bridge in Jamui that got damaged after heavy rainfall last week, inaugurated the digital library. After the board of a digital library was found written in English, he asked the officials to change it.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made a surprise visit to the secretariat and found out that most of the ministers were not present in their offices. The development has come at a time when speculations are on rise that he may once again switch sides.
Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) snapped ties with the saffron party and walked out of the NDA in August 2022.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's attendance at the Deendayal Upadhyaya birth anniversary event in Patna has led to various questions and speculations of his return to NDA.
Bihar: Notably, sale and consumption of liquor was completely banned in Bihar by the Nitish Kumar government in 2016. Yet, many cases of hooch tragedy have been reported from the dry states in recent years.
After offering their tributes, Nitish Kumar, accompanied by his Deputy CM and ministers, approached the journalists for a brief interaction.
The I.N.D.I.A bloc’s working group on media on Thursday put out a list of 14 TV anchors on whose shows the constituents would not send their representatives.
Bihar: Rebutting Amit Shah's charge of misgovernance in the state, Kumar said, "he knows nothing about Bihar and the work we have been doing here. He does not know anything about the country either".
Girl students who were not attending school, because of lack of proper facilities, were taking private tuitions, but after the circular was issued, they had to attend school.
The JD-U leader was arrested after sleuths of the central probe agency concluded the day-long search operations at his premise in Ara.
The ineligible farmers in Bihar were found to be income tax payees since 2020. The other reasons for ineligibility include being government employees, pensioners, and beneficiaries of other government schemes such as MNREGA.
The government had sent an invitation to the chief ministers of all the states to take part in the gala dinner hosted by President Droupadi Murmu, which took place in ‘Bharat Mandapam’ in New Delhi, the venue for the G20 Summit.
Advocate Sushil Kumar Singh has filed a case of culpable homicide in connection with the deaths of 243 people due to consuming spurious liquor. The lawyer has based his case on government statistics related to deaths caused by alcohol consumption.
According to reports, the payments were allegedly made to 273 fake beneficiaries who were not involved in the construction process of the toilets.
The CM had gone to Patna University to attend the Teacher's Day programme where he collapsed during the inauguration of the program.
Former Union Minister RCP Singh's close relative was allegedly shot at in his village Dharhara in Nalanda district. However, his condition was stable and he was referred to Patna.
Special session of Parliament: Parliament, which was last month adjourned sine die after the monsoon session, will meet from September 18 to 22 for a special session of which the Centre has not made public the agenda.
It was also decided that seat sharing formulae will be finalised by September 30 by INDIA bloc coordination committee, sources said.
As per the official release, the number of festive holidays in government schools has been reduced to 11 that were 23 between September to December.
As the race for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls hots up, the stage is set to hold the I.N.D.I.A. bloc meeting in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1 to make final decisions on a range of issues.
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