Bihar’s Leader: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar 2024 Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951, Bakhtiyarpur, Bihar, India) is an Indian politician and current Chief Minister of Bihar. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Bihar from 2005 to 2014 and after a brief stint as CM from 2015 to 2017. He resigned from his post and once again joined hands with NDA. Nitish took oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the ninth time in 2023. He is the longest-serving Chief Minister of Bihar. He is among the prominent leaders of the Janata Dal U political party.
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Bihar’s Leader: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar 2024
22nd Chief Ministers of Bihar
- posted
- assuming office 10 August 2022
- Governor fagu Chauhan
- Purva Adhikari Nitish Kumar
- position reinstated
22 February 2015 – 9 August 2022
- Governor Kesari Nath Tripathi
- Ram Nath Kovind
- Satyapal Malik
- Lalji Tandon
- fagu Chauhan
- Purva Adhikari
- Jitan Ram Manjhi
- Successor Self
- position reinstated
- 26 November 2010 – 17 May 2014
- Purva Adhikari
- Self
- Successor
- Jitan Ram Manjhi
- position reinstated
- 24 November 2005 – 24 November 2010
- Purva Adhikari
- President’s Rule
- Successor
- Self
- position reinstated
3 March 2000 – 10 March 2000
Purva Adhikari Rabri Devi
Successor Rabri Dev
Railway Minister of India
- position reinstated 20 March 2001 – 21 May 2004
- Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Purva Adhikari Mamata Banerjee
- Successor Lalu Prasad Yadav
- position reinstated 19 March 1998 – 5 August 1999
- Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Purva Adhikari Ram Vilas Paswan
- Successor Mamata Banerjee
Minister of Agriculture
- position reinstated
- 27 May 2000 – 21 July 2001
- Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Purva Adhikari Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Successor Sunderlal Patwa
- position reinstated 22 November 1999 – 3 March 2000
- Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Purva Adhikari Sunderlal Patwa
- Successor Ajit Singh
Minister of Surface Transport
- position reinstated 13 October 1999 – 22 November 1999
- Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Purva Adhikari M Thambidurai
- Successor Jaswant Singh
- position reinstated 14 April 1998 – 5 August 1999
- Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- Purva Adhikari Jaswant Singh
- Successor Rajnath Singh
Bihar’s Leader: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Birth
- 1 March 1951 (age 72)
- Bakhtiyarpur, Bihar, India
- political party
- Janata Dal (United) (2003–present)
- Samata Party (1994 – 2003)
Bihar’s Leader: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar 2024 Other political affiliations
- National Democratic Alliance (2003–2013; 2017–2022), Janata Dal (1989–1994)
- Life partner Late Smt. Manju Kumari Sinha
- Children Nishant Kumar (Kurmi) (Son)
- Educational Affiliation National Institute of Technology, Patna (B.E)
Bihar’s Leader: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar 2024 Honours and Awards
- Anuvrat Samman, by Shwetambar Terapanth Mahasabha (Jain organization), for implementing prohibition in Bihar, 2017
- JP Memorial Award, Nagpur Manav Mandir, 2013
- Ranked 77th among Foreign Policy Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, 2012.
- “Sir Jahangir Gandhi Medal”, by XLRI, Jamshedpur, 2011.
- “MSN Indian of the Year”, 2010″
- NDTV Indian of the Year – Politics, 2010
- Forbes “Indian Person of the Year”, 2010
- CNN-IBN “Indian of the Year Award” – Politics, 2010
- NDTV Indian of the Year – Politics, 2009
- Economic Times “Business Reformer of the Year”, 2009
- ‘Polio Eradication Championship Award’ 2009, by Rotary International
- CNN-IBN “Great Indian of the Year” Award – Politics, 2008
