{"id":5543,"date":"2019-03-01T17:18:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T11:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:51:24","slug":"nitish-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/nitish-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"All you need to know about Bihar CM Nitish Kumar who turns 67 today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nitish Kumar, his childhood and Political career<\/span><\/h2>\n

Once a top PM contender and rival of PM Modi, now the biggest supporter and leader of the allied Party. He is the undisputed leader from Bihar, Nitish Kumar.<\/p>\n

Nitish Kumar<\/strong><\/a> was born on 1 March 1951 at \u00a0<\/span>Bakhtiyarpur<\/i><\/b>(situated 50 km from Patna, the capital of Bihar)and belonged from Kurmi family. His mother, <\/span>Smt. Parmeshwari Devi<\/span><\/i> and father <\/span>Shri Ram Lakhan Singh<\/span><\/i> was an ayurvedic practitioner and a well-known face of that area. He did his schooling in Bakhtiyarpur from Ganesh High School, after doing matriculation he took admission at <\/span>Patna Science College<\/span><\/a>. Later he did a degree course in <\/span>electrical engineering<\/i><\/b> from <\/span>Bihar College of Engineering<\/span><\/a> (now known as NIT Patna).<\/span><\/p>\n

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On 22 February 1973, he married <\/span>Smt. Manju Sinha<\/span><\/i>, who was a teacher by profession but unexpectedly she died in the year 2007 at the age of 53 years. They have a son <\/span>Nishant<\/span><\/i>, who graduated from \u00a0<\/span>BIT Mesra College<\/span><\/a>, Jharkhand.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Nitish<\/a>
Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How and When Nitish Kumar got into Politics?<\/span><\/h3>\n

He entered in politics when he became the <\/span>President of the Yuva Lok Dal<\/b><\/a>, the youth wing of the <\/span>Bharatiya Lok Dal<\/span><\/i><\/a>. After that, his career in politics never stopped and from 24th November 2005 \u00a0time he was elected as 31st Chief Minister of Bihar till 24 November 2010, and again from 26 November 2010 – 17 May 2014 (32nd CM ), 22 February 2015 -till date elected as 34th CM of Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is he so popular, let us reveal some interesting facts about CM Nitish Kumar:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1] His <\/span>favorite pastimes<\/span><\/i> other than <\/span>reading newspapers<\/span><\/i> are <\/span>reading books<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>watching films<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

2] He is <\/span>awarded as the Best Chief Minister<\/span><\/i><\/a> in India according to the HT State of the Nation Poll 2007 and CNN IBN.<\/span><\/p>\n

3] Under his leadership, Bihar has been developing quite drastically as it was listed as the second highest in poverty reduction among other states in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Nitish<\/a>
Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

4] <\/span>Bihar shows the second-highest GSDP<\/span><\/i>(Gross State Domestic Product ) growth rate in the country during his rule.<\/span><\/p>\n

5] Many schemes like <\/span>meals and bicycle programs were introduced in the state to encourage girls<\/span><\/i> to join a school. Every girl student is given free bicycle which helps in reducing the dropout rate of girls in school.<\/span><\/p>\n

6] He served as <\/span>union minister of State for Agriculture in the V P Singh Government<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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7] Nitish Kumar is a non-smoker as well as he remains away from alcohol.<\/span><\/p>\n

8] Before joining politics he worked in Bihar State Electricity Board for a short period.<\/span><\/p>\n

9] Before becoming a successful lawmaker or legislator, Nitish Kumar had two unsuccessful attempts.<\/span><\/p>\n

10] The \u201cJanakari scheme\u201d scheme which is similar to the RTI Act was launched in Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n

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1st March 2019 is our dynamic, soft-spoken, sharp, articulate=ive and senior Indian politician Nitish Kumar is going to turn 67 years old. He is the Chief Minister of Bihar since 2005 and union leader of Janta Dal Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Nitish Kumar turns 67 today, read amazing facts & biography","_seopress_titles_desc":"Once a top PM contender and rival of PM Modi, now the biggest supporter and leader of the allied Party. He is the undisputed leader from Bihar, Nitish Kumar.","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[702],"tags":[672,673,674,675,218],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17955,"href":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/17955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtiwala.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}