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: Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today took a dig at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's ‘tree-fruit' comment on the merger of Janata parties, saying that a storm has destroyed all the flowers on the
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar gave 'zero marks' to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA government which will complete one year in office on May 26.Janata Dal (United) leader said that the government 'wasted'
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today marked as negative the performance of the one year-old Narendra Modi government at the Centre and said it had lost the peoples' faith.“I do not see any achievement
Patna: With question being raised over the fate of Janata Parivar merger following comment by a senior Samajwadi Party leader, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said the decision of the merger has already been
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad had a one-on-one meeting today to sort out their differences over seat-sharing and projection of the chief ministerial candidate ahead of the crucial
Patna/Gaya: Five days after being kidnapped, doctor couple Pankaj Gupta and Shubhra Gupta today returned home in Gaya town after being freed in Lucknow, state police chief P K Thakur said.The couple were freed after
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said he failed to understand why he was advised not to go to Nepal to meet earthquake victims, saying he wanted to go there not on a tour,
Patna: If reports emanating from inner circle of Lalu Prasad is to be believed then the RJD supremo has made up his mind to accept Nitish Kumar as CM candidate of unified Janata parivar in
Patna: A day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was reportedly told by the Centre to defer his Nepal trip, former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi today asked Kumar why he proposed to tour
Patna: Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has failed to support farmers affected by unseasonal rains and claimed that the recent suicide of a debt-ridden farmer was the
Patna: Janata Dal (United) today protested the Central advisory to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to not to go to Nepal for meeting earthquake victims and said it would raise the issue in Parliament.The External
New Delhi: The External Affairs Ministry has suggested to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to defer his visit to Nepal and undertake it at a “more opportune” time. According to sources, the chief minister was
Patna: Reaching out to the victims of the devastating earthquake in Nepal, the Bihar government has sent 104 buses to the Himalayan country and brought back 4,141 persons so far, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said
Patna: A day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar donated one month's salary for the earthquake victims in the state, his cabinet colleagues, JD-U legislators and MPs will follow the suit in a day or
Patna: Former Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi today urged the Bihar government to depute senior IAS and IPS officers at Kathmandu to coordinate rescue and relief work for those from Bihar
Patna: A former two-time MLA in Bihar has been booked for allegedly spreading rumour about earthquake through WhatsApp, social messaging app, a senior police officer said today."The case has been registered against Dayanand Rai, the
Patna: The toll in the earthquake in Bihar has risen to 58 and around 100 people stranded at Pokhara in Nepal have been brought back safely to Raxaul on the India-Nepal border, Chief Minister Nitish
Patna: Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan today charged the Bihar government with showing “sloppy” attitude to natural calamities like storms and earthquakes saying while the Centre was time and again promising to extend all help, the
Purnia (Bihar): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who had severed ties with the BJP for projecting Narendra Modi as Prime Ministerial candidate before the last Lok Sabha elections, today praised and thanked him for "very
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