Nitish Kumar is serving as 22nd Chief Minister of Bihar, a state in India, since 2015. He has served in that role on five previous occasions and has also served as a minister in the Union Government of India. On 17 May 2014, Kumar resigned, taking responsibility for his party’s poor performance in the 2014 general elections, and was succeeded by Jitan Ram Manjhi. He returned to office in February 2015 following a political crisis in Bihar and won the state elections of November 2015.
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Nitish Kumar is serving as 22nd Chief Minister of Bihar, a state in India, since 2015. He has served in that role on five previous occasions and has also served as a minister in the Union Government of India. On 17 May 2014, Kumar resigned, taking responsibility for his party’s poor performance in the 2014 general elections, and was succeeded by Jitan Ram Manjhi. He returned to office in February 2015 following a political crisis in Bihar and won the state elections of November 2015. Kumar was elected as the national president of his party on 10 April 2016. He resigned again on 26 July 2017 due to differences with the coalition partner, Rashtriya Janata Dal, following the naming of Tejashwi Yadav, the Deputy Chief Minister and RJD member, in a First Information Report alleging corruption filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The Bihar government under Kumar banned alcohol in the state in April 2016, and in 2010, Kumar’s government also initiated bicycle and meal programs. Kumar’s party swept back to power along with its then allies in the 2010 general elections. For the first time, electorates witnessed high turnout of women and young voters, while this was declared as the fairest election in Bihar, with no bloodshed or poll violence. In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, he contested elections from two places, when he was elected from Nalanda but lost from his traditional constituency, Barh.
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