Bihar CM Nitish Kumar to be loyal to NDA Looks for 5th consecutive year

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar
to be loyal to NDA
Looks for 5th consecutive year

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Deputy CMs Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha and others during the inauguration ceremony of the ‘Khelo India Youth Games 2025’, at Patliputra Sports Complex, in Patna, on May 4, 2025.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, on the look for a fifth consecutive term in office, on Sunday,May 4, 2025, asserted that he will “remain” in the NDA, crediting the BJP for his rise to power.

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Kumar, the JD(U) supremo, went.on to reiterate the stand while addressing the inaugural ceremony of Khelo India Youth Games, in which thousands of young athletes from across the country are participating.

The longest-serving CM, who has changed partners several times in the last decade, said, that he is going to remain here always. Earlier his party made him go here and there a couple of times. But this is not going to happen again. Who made him (the CM)? It was late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.”

Notably, since mid-1990s, Kumar has been a BJP ally, but he parted ways in 2013, following dissatisfaction with
PM Modi, his then Gujarat counterpart, gaining national prominence.

Though his party got drubbed in the Lok Sabha polls a year later, and Modi became the Prime Minister, Kumar succeeded in holding his ground, thanks to a short-lived alliance with arch rival Lalu Prasad, the RJD president, whom he dumped in 2017 to return to the NDA.
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The alliance continued till 2022, when Nitish Kumar joined hands with the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan, vowing to defeat the BJP, accusing the former ally of having tried to split the JD(U).

However, ahead of the Lok Sabha polls last year, the septuagenarian returned to the NDA, abandoning the INDIA bloc he had helped form by bringing together parties that were opposed to the BJP.

News Edit KV Raman