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The longest-serving leader minister of any Hindi- talking state, Nitish Kumar turns out to have obtained an charisma of indispensability on the subject of the best seat of energy in Bihar.
A cunning flesh presser, he stored the BJP guessing until the 11th hour prior to severing ties with the best friend, following unanimous sentiments in his JD(U) that it was once to be blamed for the birthday party’s dwindling fortunes.
Kumar then clinched a brand new deal very quickly with the opposition which, bereft of energy and coherence, welcomed him with open palms.
In a political profession spanning 4 a long time, Kumar, 71, has stored at bay taints of corruption, nepotism and misgovernance, leaving critics with little aside from opportunism as a keep on with be crushed with.
Born on March 1, 1951 in Bakhtiyarpur, a nondescript the town at the outskirts of Patna, to an Ayurvedic practitioner-cum-freedom fighter father, Kumar is {an electrical} engineer through coaching.
All over his days on the Bihar Engineering School, now referred to as NIT, Patna, he turned into lively in scholar politics and were given related to the JP motion’, which offered him to a lot of his long run pals, together with Lalu Prasad and Sushil Kumar Modi.
His first electoral luck got here within the 1985 meeting elections, which the Congress swept despite the fact that he controlled to win the Harnaut seat for Lok Dal.
5 years later, he moved to Delhi as an MP from the now- abolished seat of Barh.
ALSO READ | Nitish Kumar sworn in as Bihar CM, Tejashwi his deputy
After some other part a decade, when the Mandal wave was once at its height and Prasad was once reaping its dividends, Kumar sided with George Fernandes to waft the Samata Birthday party, which might later morph into the JD(U) and percentage energy with BJP on the Centre and, 2005 onwards, within the state.
His first 5 years as leader minister are recalled with admiration even through critics, marked through huge enhancements in recovery of legislation and order in a state that made headlines for massacres through rivalling militias and kidnappings for ransom.
A fabricated from the Mandal churn, the Kurmi chief additionally realised that he didn’t have the benefit of belonging to a populous caste crew and created sub-quotas amongst OBCs and Dalits, who had been known as Ati Pichhda’ (EBC) and Mahadalits, which was once resented through the dominant Yadavs and Dusadhs (supporters of Ram Vilas Paswan).
He additionally gave patronage to Pasmanda Muslims which, but even so his talent to stay Hindutva vigilantes in take a look at, endeared him to the minority group in spite of an outdated alliance with the BJP.
ALSO READ | Nitish was once uncomfortable with BJP, claims Prashan Kishor
Kumar introduced in measures like loose bicycles and college uniforms for school-going ladies, which gained him a lot adulation and the exuberant public temper noticed him returning to energy in 2010, main the JD(U)-BJP coalition with a landslide victory in meeting polls.
The duration, alternatively, additionally noticed the top of the Atal-Advani technology in BJP and Kumar ended up locking horns with Narendra Modi, then his Gujarat counterpart whom he by no means allowed to marketing campaign in Bihar, and snapped ties with the saffron birthday party in 2013.
He survived in energy because the JD(U) was once formidably positioned within the meeting, however stepped down in 2014, proudly owning ethical duty for the birthday party’s drubbing within the Lok Sabha elections, by which it returned with a gloomy tally of simply two seats.
In not up to a 12 months, he was once again as leader minister, elbowing out his rebellious protege Jitan Ram Manjhi with considerable reinforce from the RJD and the Congress and got here to be noticed, nationally, as a possible challenger to the Modi juggernaut.
The Grand Alliance that got here into being with JD(U), Congress and RJD coming in combination, gained the 2015 meeting polls handsomely, however got here aside in simply two years.
ALSO READ | ‘Sushasan Babu’ or ‘Paltu Ram’? Meet Nitish Kumar, grasp of the artwork of fixing governments
Kumar returned to the NDA in 2017, hoping to get some traction through distinctive feature of taking a stand in opposition to corruption taint on his then deputy Tejashwi Yadav.
His tie-up with the BJP, now in energy on the Centre with a brute majority, proved to be electorally a success despite the fact that his personal stature gave the impression to diminish, as obtrusive from the 2020 meeting ballot ends up in which the JD(U) may just win below 45 seats within the 243-strong Space.
The BJP’s competitive taste, looking for to conquer adversaries and gobble up allies, seems to have were given the goat of Kumar, who now turns out to have made up our minds that he’s along with his former allies who confirmed restricted ambition.
Whether or not not unusual flooring along with his new allies in regards to communalism and social justice will probably be stable sufficient a glue to carry the coalition in combination will probably be identified within the days to return.
Cynics would possibly view the transfer as a survival tactic on his phase, however Kumar’s parting tactics with the BJP has held out the promise of infusing contemporary vigour within the dispirited opposition within the nation.
The longest-serving leader minister of any Hindi- talking state, Nitish Kumar turns out to have obtained an charisma of indispensability on the subject of the best seat of energy in Bihar.
A cunning flesh presser, he stored the BJP guessing until the 11th hour prior to severing ties with the best friend, following unanimous sentiments in his JD(U) that it was once to be blamed for the birthday party’s dwindling fortunes.
Kumar then clinched a brand new deal very quickly with the opposition which, bereft of energy and coherence, welcomed him with open palms.
In a political profession spanning 4 a long time, Kumar, 71, has stored at bay taints of corruption, nepotism and misgovernance, leaving critics with little aside from opportunism as a keep on with be crushed with.
Born on March 1, 1951 in Bakhtiyarpur, a nondescript the town at the outskirts of Patna, to an Ayurvedic practitioner-cum-freedom fighter father, Kumar is {an electrical} engineer through coaching.
All over his days on the Bihar Engineering School, now referred to as NIT, Patna, he turned into lively in scholar politics and were given related to the JP motion’, which offered him to a lot of his long run pals, together with Lalu Prasad and Sushil Kumar Modi.
His first electoral luck got here within the 1985 meeting elections, which the Congress swept despite the fact that he controlled to win the Harnaut seat for Lok Dal.
5 years later, he moved to Delhi as an MP from the now- abolished seat of Barh.
ALSO READ | Nitish Kumar sworn in as Bihar CM, Tejashwi his deputy
After some other part a decade, when the Mandal wave was once at its height and Prasad was once reaping its dividends, Kumar sided with George Fernandes to waft the Samata Birthday party, which might later morph into the JD(U) and percentage energy with BJP on the Centre and, 2005 onwards, within the state.
His first 5 years as leader minister are recalled with admiration even through critics, marked through huge enhancements in recovery of legislation and order in a state that made headlines for massacres through rivalling militias and kidnappings for ransom.
A fabricated from the Mandal churn, the Kurmi chief additionally realised that he didn’t have the benefit of belonging to a populous caste crew and created sub-quotas amongst OBCs and Dalits, who had been known as Ati Pichhda’ (EBC) and Mahadalits, which was once resented through the dominant Yadavs and Dusadhs (supporters of Ram Vilas Paswan).
He additionally gave patronage to Pasmanda Muslims which, but even so his talent to stay Hindutva vigilantes in take a look at, endeared him to the minority group in spite of an outdated alliance with the BJP.
ALSO READ | Nitish was once uncomfortable with BJP, claims Prashan Kishor
Kumar introduced in measures like loose bicycles and college uniforms for school-going ladies, which gained him a lot adulation and the exuberant public temper noticed him returning to energy in 2010, main the JD(U)-BJP coalition with a landslide victory in meeting polls.
The duration, alternatively, additionally noticed the top of the Atal-Advani technology in BJP and Kumar ended up locking horns with Narendra Modi, then his Gujarat counterpart whom he by no means allowed to marketing campaign in Bihar, and snapped ties with the saffron birthday party in 2013.
He survived in energy because the JD(U) was once formidably positioned within the meeting, however stepped down in 2014, proudly owning ethical duty for the birthday party’s drubbing within the Lok Sabha elections, by which it returned with a gloomy tally of simply two seats.
In not up to a 12 months, he was once again as leader minister, elbowing out his rebellious protege Jitan Ram Manjhi with considerable reinforce from the RJD and the Congress and got here to be noticed, nationally, as a possible challenger to the Modi juggernaut.
The Grand Alliance that got here into being with JD(U), Congress and RJD coming in combination, gained the 2015 meeting polls handsomely, however got here aside in simply two years.
ALSO READ | ‘Sushasan Babu’ or ‘Paltu Ram’? Meet Nitish Kumar, grasp of the artwork of fixing governments
Kumar returned to the NDA in 2017, hoping to get some traction through distinctive feature of taking a stand in opposition to corruption taint on his then deputy Tejashwi Yadav.
His tie-up with the BJP, now in energy on the Centre with a brute majority, proved to be electorally a success despite the fact that his personal stature gave the impression to diminish, as obtrusive from the 2020 meeting ballot ends up in which the JD(U) may just win below 45 seats within the 243-strong Space.
The BJP’s competitive taste, looking for to conquer adversaries and gobble up allies, seems to have were given the goat of Kumar, who now turns out to have made up our minds that he’s along with his former allies who confirmed restricted ambition.
Whether or not not unusual flooring along with his new allies in regards to communalism and social justice will probably be stable sufficient a glue to carry the coalition in combination will probably be identified within the days to return.
Cynics would possibly view the transfer as a survival tactic on his phase, however Kumar’s parting tactics with the BJP has held out the promise of infusing contemporary vigour within the dispirited opposition within the nation.