Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician from Bihar. He is currently serving as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. The national president of the Janata Dal (United), he was the longest serving Chief Minister of Bihar, serving briefly in 2001, from 2005 to 2014, and again from 2015 to 2026.
Kumar first entered politics as a member of the Janata Dal, becoming an MLA in 1985. A socialist, Kumar founded the Samata Party in 1994 along with George Fernandes. In 1996, he was elected to the Lok Sabha, and served as a Union Minister in the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, with his party joining the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). In 2003, his party merged into the Janata Dal (United), and Kumar became its leader. In 2005, the NDA won a majority in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, and Kumar became chief minister heading a coalition with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In the 2010 state election, the governing coalition won re-election in a landslide. In June 2013, Kumar broke with the BJP after Narendra Modi was named as their candidate for prime minister, and formed the Mahagathbandhan, a coalition with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Indian National Congress (INC) and joined in United Progressive Alliance (UPA). On 17 May 2014, Kumar resigned as chief minister after the party suffered severe losses in the 2014 general election, and was replaced by Jitan Ram Manjhi. However, he attempted to return as chief minister in February 2015, sparking a political crisis that eventually saw Manjhi resign and Kumar become chief minister again. Later that year, the Mahagathbandhan won a large majority in the state election. In 2017, Kumar broke with the RJD over corruption allegations and returned to the NDA, leading another coalition with the BJP; at the 2020 state election his government was narrowly reelected. In August 2022, Kumar left the NDA, rejoining the Mahagathbandhan; he would also become a founding member of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance. In January 2024, Kumar again left the Mahagathbandhan and rejoined the NDA, with the government winning the 2025 state election in a landslide. In March 2026, Kumar announced his pending resignation as chief minister and intention to contest the 2026 Rajya Sabha elections, which he won. And finally on 10 April 2026, he was sworn in as the Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.
Lees meer...1 maart 1951 was een donderdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♓. Het was de 59e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Harry S. Truman.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 75 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zondag 1 maart 2026, 111 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op maandag 1 maart 2027, in 253 dagen. Je hebt 27.505 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 660.127 uur, of ongeveer 39.607.629 minuten, of ongeveer 2.376.457.740 seconden.
Date: 01 March 1951
By VIRGINIA LEE WARREN Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Virginia WARREN
employes see little hope of pub resumption
Date: 02 March 1951
seeks ct order to bar deliverers from similar practices
Date: 01 March 1951
By ALINE B. LOUCHHEIM
USSR pub Voks claims original Raphael Alba Madonna, bought by A W Mellon from USSR in '31, is in Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, and not in Natl Gallery, Washington; gallery curator and Dr Offner comment; other Mellon purchases noted; history
Date: 01 March 1951
Foreign Relations Council offers 3 fellowships for Amer foreign correspondents
Date: 01 March 1951
By MILTON BRACKER Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Milton Special
Asst Sec Miller on effects of Govt action on newspaper La Prensa
Date: 01 March 1951
NLRB finds deliverers union guilty of unfair practices, NY Herald Tribune case; orders union to make up pay losses of 14 non-union men
Date: 02 March 1951
By VIRGINIA LEE WARREN Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Virginia WARREN
Shea and McCombe sentenced and pardoned immediately; Prensa pootographer T Gil jailed; Peronista press charges NY Times correspondent and other foreign newsmen connived with Prensa mgt to start trouble; mgt reptdly seeks return of plant; US Min Mallory conf with Miller; Amer Magazine Photographers Soc scores McCombe and Gil jailing, wire to US Amb Bunker