Nitish Kumar Bihar CM rings in his 73rd birthday today! PM Modi wishes him and ‘prays for his ally’s long life’
Nitish Kumar Bihar CM rings in his 73rd birthday today! PM Modi wishes him and ‘prays for his ally’s long life’
PM Modi on Friday 1 March wished the Bihar CM Nitesh Kumar who turned 73 today.
Taking to his X (formerly Twitter), PM Modi wrote, “Best wishes to Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on his birthday.”
Adding that he prays for his long and healthy life in service of the people.
Nitish Kumar met PM Modi in New Delhi on February 7 which was his first visit as Janata Dal (United) supremo after he dumped the Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) and the INDIA bloc to form a new government with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)
in Bihar.
The meeting came five days ahead of Nitish Kumar’s government’s scheduled floor test on February 12. He also met Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Nitish Kumar took the oath as CM of Bihar for the ninth time in Raj Bhawan, Patna, switching sides again, this time with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
It was for the second time in two years that Nitish Kumar had jumped the ship, his fifth crossover in a little over a decade.
In 2022, after parting ways with the BJP, Nitish Kumar took on the initiative of uniting all opposition forces to jointly take on PM Modi and the ruling party in the national election.
In 2000, Nitish became CM for the first time after campaigning against RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s ‘Jungle Raaj’.
Till now, he has been Bihar’s
CM on eight occasions.
In 2013, he broke ranks with the NDA after a 17-year alliance following the announcement of Narendra Modi as the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate.
In 2017, Nitish forged a grand alliance with the RJD and Congress and in 2015, he returned as CM and walked out of the grand alliance in 2017, accusing the RJD of corruption and choking governance in the state.
In 2022, Nitish Kumar snapped ties with the BJP once again, alleging the BJP was conspiring against him and trying to influence JD-U MLAs to rebel against him.
News Edit K.V.Raman
