Nitish Kumar sworn in as Bihar CM for seventh time in 2 decades
Nitish Kumar sworn in as Bihar CM for seventh time in 2 decades
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Nitish Kumar was on Monday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the seventh time in twenty years. His sworn-in was in presence of top leaders of the NDA including Union Home minister Amit Shah and BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda.

The 69-year-old Kumar, who has had a continuous run since November 2005, barring the period in 2014-15 when Jitan Ram Manjhi kept the chair warm for him, is on course to becoming the longest-serving Chief Minister of the state, surpassing the record of Shrikrishna Singh who held the top post since before Independence till his death in 1961. Kumar was first sworn in as CM in 2000, for a term that lasted barely a week as he failed to muster a majority and returned as a minister at the Centre in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government.

Five years later, he returned with the JD(U)-BJP alliance winning a majority and upon completion of his tenure returned in 2010 when the coalition won a landslide victory in the assembly polls. He stepped down in May, 2014, owning moral responsibility for the JD(U)s debacle in Lok Sabha polls, only to return in February 2015 when a rebellious Manjhi was elbowed out.

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