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Nitishkumar

Nitish Kumar

Height: 1.73m DOB: 1 March 1951

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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Bihar Polls: Four voters injured by monkey attack ( Watch Video)

Politics | Oct 28, 2015, 09:01 PM IST

Patna: Four voters, including two women were attacked and injured by a monkey as they stood in queue at a booth at Bhaktiyarpur where Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar cast his vote today.The incident took

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Bihar polls: PM Modi describes RJD, JD(U), Congress '3 idiots'

Politics | Oct 27, 2015, 02:23 PM IST

Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a scathing attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for reciting song from '3 Idiots'.RJD, JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance are basically the '3 Idiots', Modi said, adding that Nitish and

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Bihar polls: Arvind Kejriwal urges people to vote for Nitish Kumar

Politics | Oct 27, 2015, 11:18 AM IST

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged people to vote for his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar on Tuesday, a day ahead of the third phase of assembly polls."I appeal to the brothers and sisters of Bihar to vote to

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Bihar polls: PM Modi accuses Nitish, Lalu of misleading people on reservation

Politics | Oct 26, 2015, 01:53 PM IST

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav of misleading people of the state on the issue of reservation."Those who have been obstructing reservation for

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Bihar polls: JD(U) lawmaker caught on camera accepting bribe

Politics | Oct 26, 2015, 10:21 AM IST

New Delhi: Two days ahead of the third phase polls in Bihar, the BJP has released a video purportedly showing a lawmaker of the Janata Dal (United) accepting an alleged bribe of Rs 2 lakh.In

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Bihar to get CM from backward caste if NDA comes to power, hints Jaitley

Politics | Oct 26, 2015, 10:22 AM IST

Patna: Senior BJP leader and Union Finance Minister on Sunday said if the NDA comes into power in the Bihar, the chief minister could be someone from the backward castes."The Chief Minister could belong to

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Asaduddin Owaisi questions 'growth with justice' model of Nitish Kumar

Politics | Oct 25, 2015, 10:04 PM IST

Kishanganj: Questioning Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's 'growth with justice' model, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and MP Asaduddin Owaisi today said Muslims were languishing in jails more than in proportion to their population

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Nitish Kumar dubs PM Modi as autocrat, says the PM and Amit Shah are rattled

Politics | Oct 25, 2015, 07:49 PM IST

Patna: Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the leaders of secular alliance accusing it of pursuing regressive agenda with "18th century mindset," Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hit back dubbing Modi an "autocrat" and said

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PM Modi warns people against 'regressive agenda' of Lalu , Nitish

Politics | Oct 25, 2015, 07:20 PM IST

Chhapra/Nalanda/Patna: Taking on rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad on their home turfs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today painted them as leaders with regressive agenda with "18th century mindset", attacking the Bihar Chief Minister over

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Bihar polls: Narendra Modi calls Lalu Prasad a 'tantrik'

Politics | Oct 25, 2015, 03:15 PM IST

Chhapra : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made a scathing attack on RJD chief Lalu Prasad on his home turf, calling him a "tantrik" (occultist) and his party "Rashtriya Jadu Tona Party" as he

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Bihar polls: Nalanda litmus test for JD(U)-RJD alliance

Politics | Oct 25, 2015, 02:56 PM IST

Nalanda: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's home turf Nalanda will prove to be a litmus test for the JDU-RJD alliance as the dominant castes in the region - Kurmis and Yadav have for long been rivals

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Poster wars reach a crescendo in Patna ahead of polls

Politics | Oct 25, 2015, 02:38 PM IST

Patna: Helicopter-borne candidates and campaigners circling over villages and cities may have raised the battle pitch in Bihar literally to the skies, but posters and hoardings still rule here as opponents are using the visual campaign to the

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Nitish Kumar questions PM Modi's 'silence' over Faridabad Dalit burning

Politics | Oct 24, 2015, 10:01 PM IST

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today questioned the "silence" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over burning to death of two Dalit children in Haryana."Over 100 hours & Modiji hasn't uttered a word on Dalit

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Rising dal prices: Arun Jaitley asks Nitish Kumar to act against hoarders

Politics | Oct 24, 2015, 08:32 PM IST

Patna: Countering criticism of BJP by rival parties in Bihar polls over rising prices of pulses, Union Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Centre is taking steps to quell the crisis through imports and asked

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BJP's tantrik video stunt act of 'political pornography': RJD

Politics | Oct 24, 2015, 07:00 PM IST

Patna: Senior Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Manoj Jha on Saturday said BJP's Giriraj Singh was indulging in “political pornography” after being pulled out of the party's campaign trail, adding that the act of releasing

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Watch video: Tantrik embarrasses Nitish with 'Lalu murdabad' slogan

Politics | Oct 24, 2015, 08:29 PM IST

New Delhi: A video of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar visiting a tantric baba has gone viral on social media.In the video, baba was seen raising slogans against Nitish's one-time arch-rival-turned-friend RJD chief Lalu Prasad

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Bihar Polls: BJP trying to win elections through 'negative' agendas, says Nitish Kumar

Politics | Oct 23, 2015, 07:05 PM IST

Chapra: Rejecting the Gujarat model of development, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday alleged that Gujarat has the largest population of malnourished women and said they do not need the model which "cannot adequately

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Bihar poll results may rekindle inner party democracy in BJP: Bihar CM

Politics | Oct 23, 2015, 11:43 AM IST

Patna: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has anticipated the strengthening of an anti-BJP front in centre after Bihar elections.In an interview to Economic Times, Kumar said, “There will be a consolidation of an anti-BJP front

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Nitish holds Sushil Modi responsible for fall out with PM Modi

Politics | Oct 21, 2015, 10:14 AM IST

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has blamed his former deputy Sushil Modi for his rift with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.In an interview to a news channel, Kumar said that he was never in the

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Pulse war breaks out on Bihar's electoral table

Politics | Oct 20, 2015, 09:10 PM IST

Patna: With a finger on the pulse of voters, rivals alliances in election-bound Bihar today served each other liberal portions of blame for rapidly vanishing pulses from the platter of the common man due to

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