Nitish Kumar National Role

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's remarks in Assembly on the role women's education can play in population control has sparked a heated exchange between the national women's panel chief and Rajya Sabha member Priyanka Chaturvedi.

"Desh ka neta kaisa ho, Nitish Kumar jaisa ho" was the slogan that rent the air, and summed up the sentiment, at the JD(U)'s Bihar headquarters here ahead of the party's national executive meeting scheduled today.

Their partnership may have been terminated by circumstances, and the Bihar election results, but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar now hopes his former deputy Sushil Kumar Modi will get to play a "national role".

Former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar, months before elections. His former rival Nitish Kumar reportedly played a key role in bringing him back to his side.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar might have called Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru a national hero in the past and praised his role in the freedom movement, but he doesn't follow him. Mahatma Gandhi, Ram Manohar Lohia and Jayaprakash Narayan are his role models, he said.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was today formally appointed JD-U president, pushing him for a bigger role in national politics, though the party desisted from declaring him its prime ministerial candidate for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Making good on a promise made in a phone call to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley a few days ago, Nitish Kumar called a special session of the Bihar Assembly which cleared the landmark Goods and Services Tax or GST reform today.

Nitish Kumar, 64, begins yet another term as Bihar's chief minister today. But, this time his role in Indian politics is unlikely to be confined to just engineering the state's development story.

The BJP on Friday accused the Bihar government - from which it was forced out recently - of a weak role in the arrest of Yasin Bhatkal, one of India's most-wanted men. The party said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asked the police to desist from arresting or seeking Bhatkal's custody because he didn't want to upset Muslims, who are a crucial part...

Without naming him, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made it clear today that he has ended a 17-year alliance with the BJP because of the leading role it has drawn up for Narendra Modi.

Narendra Modi has never asked for "a bigger role", BJP president Rajnath Singh said today, "not even once." He also said that "Nobody can deny that Narendra Modi is among the most popular (leaders) and also the best performer (in the BJP)."

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's remarks in Assembly on the role women's education can play in population control has sparked a heated exchange between the national women's panel chief and Rajya Sabha member Priyanka Chaturvedi.

"Desh ka neta kaisa ho, Nitish Kumar jaisa ho" was the slogan that rent the air, and summed up the sentiment, at the JD(U)'s Bihar headquarters here ahead of the party's national executive meeting scheduled today.

Their partnership may have been terminated by circumstances, and the Bihar election results, but Chief Minister Nitish Kumar now hopes his former deputy Sushil Kumar Modi will get to play a "national role".

Former Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar, months before elections. His former rival Nitish Kumar reportedly played a key role in bringing him back to his side.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar might have called Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru a national hero in the past and praised his role in the freedom movement, but he doesn't follow him. Mahatma Gandhi, Ram Manohar Lohia and Jayaprakash Narayan are his role models, he said.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was today formally appointed JD-U president, pushing him for a bigger role in national politics, though the party desisted from declaring him its prime ministerial candidate for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Making good on a promise made in a phone call to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley a few days ago, Nitish Kumar called a special session of the Bihar Assembly which cleared the landmark Goods and Services Tax or GST reform today.

Nitish Kumar, 64, begins yet another term as Bihar's chief minister today. But, this time his role in Indian politics is unlikely to be confined to just engineering the state's development story.

The BJP on Friday accused the Bihar government - from which it was forced out recently - of a weak role in the arrest of Yasin Bhatkal, one of India's most-wanted men. The party said that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar asked the police to desist from arresting or seeking Bhatkal's custody because he didn't want to upset Muslims, who are a crucial part...

Without naming him, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made it clear today that he has ended a 17-year alliance with the BJP because of the leading role it has drawn up for Narendra Modi.

Narendra Modi has never asked for "a bigger role", BJP president Rajnath Singh said today, "not even once." He also said that "Nobody can deny that Narendra Modi is among the most popular (leaders) and also the best performer (in the BJP)."