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Nitish Kumār (Hindi: नितीश कुमार) or Nitīśa Kumāra, (born 1 March 1951), is the 29th and 31st Chief Minister of Bihar, an Eastern state in India. He is an Indian politician who leads his party, Janata Dal (United). 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.

Political career

Early career

Nitish Kumar participated in Jayaprakash Narayan’s movement between 1974 and 1977, and was close to Satyendra Narayan Sinha, a prominent leader of the time. He was first elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1985 as an independent candidate. 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 the same year.
During Minister of Railways, he made a lot of reforms in Railways [5]. As a result of his reforms the fruits were subsequently enjoyed by incoming Railway ministers like Lalu.

Union Minister in Centre

In 1989, Nitish Kumar was appointed as 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 the Deputy Leader of Janata Dal in the Parliament. He represented Barh parliamentary constituency (Bihar) in the Lok Sabha between 1989 and 2004.
He briefly served as the Union Cabinet 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.
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 Bihari 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.

Chief Minister of Bihar

In 2000, Nitish Kumar was appointed the Chief Minister of Bihar but had to resign 7 days later (March 3, 2000 – March 10, 2000). 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. Under his regime Bihar developed electronic version of RTI Act. In addition to that he also launched the e-shakti, a system by which the rural people can get information through telephone on the jobs available at their location under NREGS. In 2010, Nitish Kumar’s party swept back to power along with its ally BJP. As of November 24, 2010, Nitish Kumar is the presumptive candidate for the post of the Chief Minister of Bihar.