5ft 8in

Black

78

White

Male

Chest: 37inch

Waist: 30inch

Biceps: 12inch

Bakhtiarpur, Bihar

Pisces

Hindu

Shree Ganesh High School Bakhtiarpur

Patna Science College Patna

Bihar College of Engineering Patna

Patna Bihar

Bakhtiarpur

Bihar

Indian

Kaviraj Ram Lakhan Singh

Parmeshwari Devi

Late Manju Kumari Sinha

Nishant

Married

Late Manju Kumari Sinha

Janata Dal (United)

1974: Joined the JP movement

arrested under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act

1975: Arrested during the infamous Emergency

1989: Appointed as Secretary General of Janata Dal

Bihar. Elected as a Member of Parliament for the first time

1990: Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Cooperation

1999: Union Minister for Surface Transport

2000: Union Minister of Agriculture

2000: Chief Minister of Bihar for the first time for only 7 days as he couldn't prove majority

2001: Union Minister for Railways

2005: Elected Chief Minister of Bihar for the second time with BJP's support

2010: Groundbreaking victory as the CM and leader of NDA campaign in the assembly election

2014: Broke up with the long time partner BJP

after which his party was defeated badly in Lok Sabha elections and he resigned as CM

2015: Was re-made the Chief Minister and made a Mahagathbandhan that includes Rashtriya Janata Dal Indian National Congress and Janata Dal (United).

JP Memorial Award

Nagpur's Manav Mandir 2013

Ranked 77th in prestigious Foreign Policy Magazine top 100 global thinkers 2012

XLRI Jamshedpur "Sir Jehangir Gandhi Medal" for Industrial & Social Peace 2011

"MSN Indian of the year 2010

NDTV Indian of the Year – Politics 2010 Forbes "India's Person of the Year"

2010

CNN-IBN "Indian of the Year Award" – Politics

NDTV Indian of the year – Politics

2009

Economics Times "Business reformer of the Year 2009".

PM Narendra Modi

Reading

Watching Films

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no

N/A

N/A

Aamir Khan

N/A

PK

N/A

Indian Food

Cricket

Blue

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40.37 Lacs

Some Interesting Facts About Nitish Kumar

1. Nitish Kumar loves reading books and watching films.

2. In the HT State of the Nation Poll 2007 & CNN IBN, he was awarded as the Best Chief Minister in India.

3. Bihar has been developing quite drastically under his leadership as it was listed as the second-highest in poverty reduction amid other states in the country.

4. Moreover, during his rule, Bihar showed the second-highest GSDP(Gross State Domestic Product) growth rate in the country.

5. In his session, to encourage girls to join a school, many schemes like meals and bicycle programs were introduced in the state. Under this scheme, every girl student is granted free bicycle, which helps in reducing the dropout rate of girls in school.

6. In the V P Singh Government, he also served as Union Minister of State for Agriculture.

7. Nitish Kumar remains away from alcohol as well as is a non-smoker.

8. He worked in Bihar State Electricity Board for a short period before joining politics.

9. Nitish Kumar had two unsuccessful attempts before becoming a successful lawmaker or legislator.

10. He also launched “Janakari” scheme, which is similar to the RTI Act in Bihar.