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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Gaya: Cacophemism and name-calling marked the high-volatge sparring today between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the Bihar electoral battle.Adressing a rally in Gaya, Modi, who had recently described Lalu Prasad's
PM Modi tears into JD(U)-RJD alliance; asks people to bring BJPGaya: Tearing into the ruling Nitish Kumar- Lalu Prasad alliance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked the people of Bihar to use the upcoming
Patna: Voicing strong displeasure over Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling Bihar a BIMARU (laggard) state, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today launched a counter attack and asked him to get his facts right.He also hit back
Patna: Launching a counter-offensive against the scathing remarks by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on him, RJD President Lalu Prasad today accused Modi of lowering the standard of the PM's post. “Narendra Modi has given a
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday described the Narendra Modi government as a "union Twitter government that listens, acts and responds only on twitter"."Finally we have a government that could be truly
Gaya: Tearing into the ruling Nitish Kumar- Lalu Prasad alliance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked the people of Bihar to use the upcoming assembly polls as an opportunity to "free themselves from the
Patna: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today publicly expressed his displeasure over senior BJP leader Ram Nath Kovind's appointment as Bihar Governor claiming that he was not consulted in the matter by the Centre as per
Patna: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Gaya, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today took a jibe at his government, saying the Centre responds and acts only on networking site Twitter.Kumar also questioned
1. Ravi Shankar Prasad to launch mobile app for digital literacyNew Delhi: Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will today launch a Disha mobile app, which can be used to learn about computers and Internet.2. Nitish
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today voiced his displeasure over the appointment of senior BJP leader Ram Nath Kovind as new Governor for the state without consulting him, saying he got the information
New Delhi: Ahead of Assembly elections in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday faced an angry crowd during an event in Delhi.At the inauguration of the New Delhi chapter of the Bihar foundation at
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said he will seek the people's mandate on the basis of his work and not by using "jumlas" (euphemism) like the BJP, in an apparent dig at BJP
1. PM Modi to launch first National Handloom DayChennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today launch the first National Handloom Day at a national level function in Chennai.2. Prez to begin two-day visit to OdishaNew
Patna, Bihar: Former chief minister of Bihar, Jitan Ram Manjhi's political outfit, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) has been allotted telephone as a symbol by the Election Commission. Mr Manjhi shared the information in a
New Delhi: Charging that "arrogance, betrayal, conspiracy and deceit" are the ABCD of Nitish Kumar's politics, the BJP-led NDA today launched an all-outattack on the Bihar Chief Minister, accusing him of "shamelessly" distorting Prime Minister
New Delhi: BJP today accused Nitish Kumar for equating his "supreme arrogance with the identity of Bihar" after the chief minister in an open letter charged Narendra Modi with insulting the state by taking a
Patna: In an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took strong objection to his DNA comment about the Bihar Chief Minister at a recent election rally in the
Lok Sabha member and Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) founder Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav on Tuesday said he will draw attention of Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Patna Senior Superintendent of Police “threatening” to
Patna: Actor-turned-BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today denied that their recent meetings were in context of the former's wife entering into the fray in the Assembly poll on a JD(U)
Patna: Targeting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his ally RJD leader Lalu Prasad, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghuvar Das on Sunday urged the people to vote for a "Nitish-Lalu mukht Bihar"."After Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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