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Nitish Kumar
  • Nickname:
    Munna
  • Date of Birth:
    March 1, 1951
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Pisces
  • Place of Birth:
    Bakhtiarpur, Patna, Bihar
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Religion:
    Hinduism
  • Education:
    Bihar College of Engineering, Patna
  • Address:
    Vill. Hakikatpur, P.O. Bakhtiarpur, Distt. Patna - 800 001, Bihar
  • Phone:
    06132 - 2262627

Family

Nitish Kumar
  • Father:
    Late Shri Kaviraj Ram Lakhan Singh
  • Mother:
    Smt. Parmeshwari Devi
  • Spouse:
    Late Smt. Manju Kumari Sinha
  • Son:
    Nishant Kumar

Career

Nitish Kumar

Awards

Nitish Kumar

2008 - Indian of the year - Politics

2007 - The Best Chief Minister, according to the CNN-IBN and HT State of the Nation Poll

2009 - Economics Times "Reformer of the Year"

Trivia

Nitish Kumar
  • In November 2005, he led the National Democratic Alliance to victory in the 2005 Bihar assembly elections bringing an end to the 15-year rule of the Lalu Prasad Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal. He was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar on 24 November 2005.
  • In 2000, Nitish Kumar was appointed the Chief Minister of Bihar but had to resign 7 days later (March 3, 2000 – March 10, 2000).
  • He briefly served as the Union Cabinet as Minister for Railways and Minister for Surface Transport and then as the Minister for Agriculture in 1998-99. In August 1999, he resigned following the railway accident at Gaisal in North East India.
  • In 1991, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha and became General Secretary of the Janata Dal at the national level and the Deputy Leader of Janata Dal in the Parliament. He represented Barh parliamentary constituency (Bihar) in the Lok Sabha between 1989 and 2004.
  • In 1989, Nitish Kumar was appointed as the Union Minister of State for Agriculture in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh.
  • In 1989, he became the Secretary-General of the Janata Dal in Bihar. He was also elected to the 9th Lok Sabha the same year.
  • In 1987, he became the President of the Yuva Lok Dal.
  • He was first elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1985.
  • He is a teetotaler, doesn’t smoke, and is a frugal eater.
  • As the Chief Minister he has gained popularity by building long-delayed bridges, re-laying roads that had ceased to exist, appointing over 100,000 school teachers, ensuring that doctors worked in primary health centers, and keeping crime in check.

Quotes

Nitish Kumar
  • “The riot victims did not get justice and we are convinced the cases need revision.”
  • “The police establishment should be extra alert and take optimum precaution to thwart any sinister designs at the hands of militants to create disturbances on the eve of or on Republic Day.”
  • “In today's age, there is no room for such discriminating practices. Neither the Constitution nor the morality permits such behavior and we must end it without wasting even a single day.”
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Biography

Nitish Kumar
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Nitish KumarNitish Kumar is the Chief Minister of the north Indian state of Bihar. He is the top leader of Janata Dal (United) party. His name may also be written Nitīś Kumār, following the Hindi orthography.

Kumar graduated from Bihar College of Engineering, now NIT Patna with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He was involved in the movement led by Jayaprakash Narayan between 1974 and 1977, and was close, among others, to Satyendra Narayan Sinha, a prominent leader of the time.

He was first elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1985. In 1987, he became the President of the Yuva Lok Dal. In 1989, he became the Secretary-General of the Janata Dal in Bihar. He was also elected to the 9th Lok Sabha that year.

In 1989, he became the Union Minister of State for Agriculture in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh.In 1991, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha and became General Secretary of the Janata Dal at the national level and Deputy Leader of Janata Dal in Parliament.

nitish Kumar He represented Barh parliamentary constituency (Bihar) in the Lok Sabha between 1989 and 2004. He briefly served as the Union Cabinet as Minister for Railways and MInister for Surface Transport and then as the Minister for Agriculture in 1998-99. In August 1999, he resigned following the railway accident at Gaisal in North East India.

In 2000, he was made the Chief Minister of Bihar but had to resign in 7 days. Later that year, he rejoined the Union Cabinet as Minister for Agriculture. From 2001 to May 2004, he served as the Union Cabinet Minister for Railways in the NDA government of Atal Behari Vajpayee.

In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, he contested elections from two constituencies, Barh and Nalanda. He was elected from Nalanda but lost from his traditional constituency, Barh. He was the leader of the Janata Dal (United) Parliamentary Party in the Lok Sabha.

In November 2005, he led the National Democratic Alliance to a victory in the 2005 Bihar assembly elections, bringing to an end the 15-year rule of the Lalu Prasad Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal in the state. He was sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar on 24 November 2005. His father was a freedom fighter and enjoyed close proximity with the great Gandhian Bihar Bibhuti Anugrah Narayan Sinha, one of the founders of modern Bihar.

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