Nitish Kumar on Thursday took oath as Bihar Chief Minister for the 10th time, extending his nearly two-decade tenure and entering the list of India’s longest-serving Chief Ministers. At 74, the JD(U) leader continues to shape Bihar’s political landscape.
Paswan added that he is delighted the Chief Minister appreciated the role of every alliance partner in the NDA for the victory in the Bihar assembly polls.
G Krishnaiah, an IAS officer of 1985 batch, was just 37 years when he was killed by the mob led by Anand Mohan.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who returned here on Thursday after his Delhi visit to meet top opposition leaders, said that he had only one goal ahead of next year's Lok Sabha polls.
Talking to The Statesman in an exclusive interview, the Booker prize winner said: “There is an urgent need for all the like-minded political parties to be united to defeat the fascist forces.”
Several BSSC aspirants, protesting for cancellation of all three sessions of the exam following the leak of the question papers, at the Dak Bunglow Chowk, were injured as police used force to disperse them.
Following the allegations of Tejashwi Yadav, chief minister Nitish Kumar said that the crime graph in Bihar has come down significantly.
The former deputy chief minister said there is a strong possibility of Bihar not only becoming a national hotspot, rather it is heading towards becoming a global hotspot of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly a dozen districts in north Bihar were devastated by flash floods last year, which followed torrential rain in the catchment areas of Nepal.
Nitish Kumar had asked the Centre to drop new columns in NPR forms like parents' places of birth, saying they were 'not necessary' and might lead to apprehensions.
