Nitish Kumar

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Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar ( Hindi नितीश कुमार ; born March 1, 1951 in Bakhtiarpur , Bihar ) is an Indian politician of the Janata Dal (United) . From 2005 to 2014 he was Chief Minister of Bihar as the successor to Rabri Devi . He resigned from this position in May 2014, but returned to office in February 2015.

Life

Kumar was born into a simple family in a village in Bihar. He studied electrical engineering at the National Institute of Technology in Patna . Since 1989 he has been a member of the Lok Sabha for the constituency of Barh (elections 1989 to 1999 ) and the constituency of Nalanda ( 2004 ) in Bihar. Initially he was a member of the Janata Dal , but in 1994 he joined the Samata Party , which had split off from the latter. He later became their party leader. In 2003, the Samata Party joined the Janata Dal (United) , one of the parties that came into being after the Janata Dal's disintegration between 1997 and 1999.

In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Vajpayee Kumar held several ministerial posts. From 1999 he was Minister for Road Transport. From May 27, 2000 to July 21, 2001 and from November 22, 1999 to March 3, 2000, he served as Indian Minister of Agriculture. From March 20, 2001 to May 21, 2004, Kumar was Indian Railways Minister, an office he had held until August 1999 when he resigned after the Gaisal railway accident .

Kumar was Chief Minister of Bihar on several occasions. He was appointed to this office for the first time on March 3, 2000 by the governor of Bihar V. C. Pande . He resigned 7 days later, on May 10, 2000, after his government could not find a majority in parliament. His second term as Chief Minister of Bihar began on November 24, 2005 at the head of a coalition government made up of JD (U) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). His ruling coalition was re-elected in the 2010 general election in Bihar.

In 2013, Kumar's party, the JD (U), largely at his instigation, terminated the 14-year-old alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the JD (U) left the BJP-led coalition of the National Democratic Alliance . The reason given was dissatisfaction with the top candidate of the BJP Narendra Modi for the all-India parliamentary election next year. After the landslide election victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the relatively poor performance of his own party in the 2014 Lok Sabha election , Kumar announced his resignation as Chief Minister. He was succeeded as Chief Minister by Jitan Ram Manjhi . On February 20, 2015, Manjhi resigned from this office to avoid the threat of a vote defeat on the vote of confidence in parliament. On February 22, 2015, Nitish Kumar was again elected as his successor.

In the parliamentary elections in Bihar in October / November 2015, Kumars Janata Dal (United) entered into a "grand alliance" ( Mahagathbandhan ) with the Rashtriya Janata Dal party of his arch rival Lalu Prasad Yadav and the Congress Party . Their common opponent was the Bharatiya Janata Party , for which Prime Minister Narendra Modi in particular campaigned. The election was won by the alliance.

On July 26, 2017, Kumar surprisingly announced his resignation from the office of Chief Minister. He accused his previous political ally Lalu Prasad Yadav and his son Tejashwi Yadav, who was Deputy Chief Minister, of corruption. On the same day, the BJP faction in Bihar's parliament offered its support in the formation of a new government. Just three days later, on July 29, 2017, the ministers of a new coalition government consisting of JD (U), BJP and Lok Janshakti Party were sworn in with Kumar as the new-old Chief Minister.

Personal

Since February 22, 1973, Kumar was married to Manju Kumari Sinha, a teacher. His wife died in 2007. The marriage resulted in a son, Nishant Kumar. Kumar is a vegetarian, does not drink alcohol and is a non-smoker.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. K. Balchand: Emotional homecoming for Nitish Kumar. The Hindu, November 26, 2005, accessed October 17, 2015 .
  2. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on October 17, 2015 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  3. K. Balchand: Nitish Kumar sworn in CM. The Hindu, March 4, 2000, accessed October 17, 2015 .
  4. Soroor Ahmed: Nitish Kumar resigns as CM. rediff.com, March 10, 2000, accessed October 17, 2015 .
  5. ^ Nitish says goodbye. The Telegraph (Calcutta), May 18, 2014, accessed October 17, 2015 .
  6. Jitan Ram Manjhi resigns as Bihar CM ahead of trust vote. Business Standard, February 20, 2015, accessed October 17, 2015 .
  7. ^ Bihar election: Voting ends in the first phase of Indian state polls. BBC News, October 12, 2015, accessed October 17, 2015 .
  8. Grand Alliance secures majority in Bihar. The Hindu, November 8, 2015, accessed November 15, 2015 .
  9. ^ Nitish Kumar resigns in blow to Mahagathbandhan, will return as Bihar CM with BJP support. Hindustan Times, July 31, 2017, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  10. 14 are from CM Nitish Kumar's party, 12 from the BJP and one from National Democratic Alliance partner LJP. July 30, 2017, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  11. ^ Vijay Simha: News Up Close: Constant Gardener's turn in the sun. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archive.tehelka.com