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		Kumar is a senior leader of the Janata Dal United, which is part of the National Democratic Alliance and won the elections held in four stages, which started in October.
		Sushil Kumar Modi of the BJP was sworn in as deputy Chief Minister.
		Nitish Kumar may have won as he says on a vote for change and development but he knows how much may change in Bihar, as caste remains a key element in the state's politics.
	www.eastwestdirectory.com /more.php?id=357_0_2_0_C (201 words)

	outlookindia.com \| wired
		Patience finally paid off for the 54-year-old Kumar, who has shown that his success was not just a flash in the pan as he led the NDA to a convincing win in the politically volatile state, to end the 15-year reign of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad.
		A socialist and Lohiaite by conviction, Kumar was drawn to politics during his college days and was a key leader of 1974 students' movement under the Jayaprakash Narain which culminated in the fall of the Indira Gandhi regime and installation of the first non-Congress government in Delhi in 1977.
		Kumar was later accommod ated in the union cabinet and was agriculture minister from November 1999 to March 2000.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_news.asp?id=336729 (890 words)

	A NEW ERA IN BIHAR
		It is a widely accepted fact in the political circles of Bihar and outside that it was the action of projecting Nitish Kumar as the chief ministerial candidate that helped the NDA surpass all expectations and garner a majority in the Assembly.
		In short, the Nitish Kumar-led NDA became a sort of acceptable refuge for all segments of the population that were unhappy with the RJD and its leadership.
		Nitish Kumar has, in the first few days of his chief ministership, made it clear to the BJP that its cannot treat the Bihar results as a permit to revive its politics of Hindutva.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2225/stories/20051216006500400.htm (1427 words)

	Social justice and new challenges
		Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi of the BJP greet Rabri Devi on the first day of the first session of the 14th Assembly of Bihar, on November 28.
		The near-total support Nitish Kumar and the NDA got from the upper-caste communities such as Bhumihars, Brahmins and Thakurs is based essentially on their unconcealed animosity towards the "backward assertive" politics pursued by Lalu Prasad and the RJD.
		If Nitish Kumar is to work towards fulfilling the aspirations of this sizable segment of the electorate which helped him win, it would involve taking such steps that militate against the vested interests of not only the upper-caste communities but also against the recently empowered castes.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2225/stories/20051216008200900.htm (1094 words)

	The Day After (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Somehow somewhere Nitish Kumar created a new chapter in the political glossary of the state.
		Nitish Kumar, a mechanical engineer, a leader who leads the life of an aam aadmi is going to shape the social engineering Bihar.
		In 2000 Nitish Kumar became the chief minister in the seven-day hung assembly of Bihar and failed to prove the majority on the floor of the House.
	www.dayafterindia.com /cover_story.html (1882 words)

	Nitish Kumar to hold gup-shup darbars
		Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will hold a 'gup-shup durbar' from mid-August on the lines of village 'durbar,' where people will be free to exchange their views and ideas on common issues.
		Kumar said it will be like a village chaupal where people can discuss problems of villages, implementation of schemes, feelings of people and what should be done and what they want to be done.
		Kumar said in Patna that the gup-shup durbar will be a free forum where everybody will have freedom to express their ideas.
	www.rediff.com /news/2006/aug/03bihar.htm (263 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Kurmi community to which Kumar belongs is dominant only in the Lok Sabha seats of Nalanda, Barh and Patna and has pockets of influence in old Bhojpur, Buxar and Arah, constituting 3 to 4 per cent of the electorate.
		Kumar had explored the option of a poll tie-up with the Congress while he was holding talks with the BJP on seat sharing.
		Kumar could be rewarded with a plum cabinet berth in Delhi if Paswan or a Congress nominee becomes chief minister.
	telegraphindia.com /1050212/asp/nation/story_4369507.asp (426 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nitish Kumar rode the show as unanimously agreed alternative to Rabri Devi, the bjp was upfront in stating that loud and clear.
		Their masterstroke (“Who decided to project Nitish Kumar as chief minister ahead of the campaign?”) The problem will arise if they begin to think Nitish Kumar is their chief minister, his government their government.
		Nitish Kumar has vociferously espoused the cause of what is essentially the Mandal-secular constituency — the lower and more populous half of backwards, popularly known as the extremely backward castes (ebcs) and the lower and untended half of Muslims.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main15.asp?filename=Ne120305great_victory.asp (1178 words)

	Nitish Kumar promises crime-free Bihar : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		New Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday promised to usher in a crime-free Bihar.
		The soft-spoken Nitish Kumar was all smiles as he spoke to reporters after the oath taking ceremony at the Gandhi Maidan ground.
		Nitish Kumar said it was unfortunate that Bihar's image was so poor because of lawlessness, kidnappings, poor roads and lack of development over the last decade.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1555557,001301960000.htm (217 words)

	Nitish Kumar, Sushil Modi to resign as MPs : HindustanTimes.com
		Nitish Kumar said he would submit his resignation as a Lok Sabha member from Nalanda during his visit to New Delhi by the end of May second week.
		Nitish Kumar had won the Nalanda seat as a Janata Dal-United (JD-U) candidate in the 2004 parliamentary elections.
		It is obligatory for Nitish Kumar, who was not a member of the House, to be a member of either the state assembly or the legislative council within a period of six months after having become chief minister on November 24, 2005.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1693323,000900030002.htm (295 words)

	The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily
		Patna: Nitish Kumar was yesterday invited by Bihar Governor Buta Singh to take oath as the state's new chief minister heading a coalition government of his Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
		Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, who was chosen by his party's legislators to be the new deputy chief minister, accompanied Nitish Kumar when he staked the claim to form the next government.
		Earlier, Nitish Kumar was elected leader of the 88-member JD-U legislature party, paving the way for his swearing in as chief minister.
	www.thepeninsulaqatar.com /Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=India&month=November2005&file=World_News2005112432549.xml (547 words)

	PM rejects Nitish Kumar's offer to resign
		Kumar had sent in the resignation letter after high drama at the Samata Party national council meeting in the afternoon, where he had announced his intention to resign from the government.
		Kumar said since he did not respond to the attacks it did not mean that he could not respond to the charges but had been refraining from doing so in the larger interest of the party.
		Kumar's outburst came in the wake of speech made earlier by party MP Prabhunath Singh in which he made a strong plea for revoking the expulsion of Lok Sabha member Raghunath Jha and later walked out of the meeting after threatening to resign if it was not done.
	rediff.com /news/2003/jul/14nitish.htm (488 words)

	PD News - Nitish Confident of NDA Victory
		The senior Janata Dal (U) leader and NDA Chief Ministerial candidate Nitish Kumar wasted no time in resuming his election campaign after the peaceful conclusion of the third phase of the Bihar Assembly polls on Sunday when he took part in a town-hall type question-answer session at Shivaji Park in Kankarbagh in Patna.
		Beaming with confidence, Kumar who was there to drum up support for the NDA candidate Arun Kumar Sinha from Patna Central said that the end of Lalu-Rabri jungle raj was very close indeed and a new wave of peace and development in Bihar was about to begin.
		Nitish Kumar also attended public meetings at Chhapra, Siwan and Gopalganj where he blasted the RJD chief for continuing to criticize the Election Commission (EC) and the media.
	patnadaily.com /news05/november/111405/nitish_confident_of_victory.html (589 words)

	Headline News :: World News Blogs :: Nitish stakes claim to form govt in Bihar
		Kumar toppled RJD chief Lalu Yadav in Bihar and his supporters have been waiting for this moment for 15 long years.
		Earlier in the day Nitish Kumar also announced that he would be inducting about 14 ministers in the new NDA government in the state.
		Nitish Kumar will be sworn in on Thursday with a team of around 12 ministers from the two parties.
	www.bloggossip.com /index.php?id=6636 (457 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : `Development' binds Nitish's coalition of extremes
		With the Nitish Kumar Government in Bihar completing four months in office, animated debates rage, in the State and elsewhere, on whether the new Chief Minister will be able to put Bihar on the road to development.
		With Mr Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (U) being in coalition with the BJP, a party associated with the upper classes and castes, the central question in Bihar's politics today is what will happen to that slogan.
		Despite the legacy that Mr Nitish Kumar has inherited — a historically weak government administration, a bureaucracy that has got used to neither working nor being accountable — the huge expectation from everyone is that Bihar will now change.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2006/04/06/stories/2006040600660800.htm (1141 words)

	Nitish Kumar to stake claim this evening- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kumar would arrive here this afternoon and drive to the state JD(U) office where a meeting of its legislature party has been convened at 1600 hours to formally elect him its leader.
		Kumar would later meet governor Buta Singh at Rajbhavan around 6.30 pm to stake claim to form the NDA government.
		Swearing-in of Kumar and some of his ministers, including a Deputy Chief Minister from BJP, would be held at a colourful function at historic Gandhi Maidan at one PM tomorrow for which preparations are on.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1305239.cms (221 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / Editorials : Behind Nitish Kumar's triumph
		Kumar stayed with the BJP — through the many Ayodhya programmes and the anti-Muslim Gujarat pogrom.
		Kumar succeeded in shifting the focus of the discourse from Hindutva to development.
		Kumar snatched his victory from a regime that, in the public perception, came to symbolise anarchy and was anti-development.
	www.hindu.com /2005/11/26/stories/2005112603221000.htm (476 words)

	DNA - India - Life turns full circle for Nitish Kumar - Daily News & Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Patience paid for the 54-year-old Kumar, who has shown that his success was not a flash in the pan as he led the NDA to a convincing win in the politically volatile state, to end the 15-year reign of Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad.
		A socialist and Lohiaite by conviction, Kumar was drawn to politics during his college days and was a key leader of the 1974 students' movement under the Jaiprakash Narain which culminated in the fall of the Indira Gandhi regime and installation of the first non-Congress government in Delhi in 1977.
		Kumar was later accommodated in the Union Cabinet and was agriculture minister from November 1999 to March 2000.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=10894&CatID=2 (850 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : Nitish Kumar wins clear mandate in Bihar
		PATNA/New Delhi: Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar has led the National Democratic Alliance to a resounding victory in the Bihar Assembly elections.
		Kumar's combine won 143 seats in the 243-member Assembly, with the JD(U) bagging 88 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party 55.
		Kumar would be sworn in Chief Minister along with about a dozen Ministers on Thursday.
	www.hindu.com /2005/11/23/stories/2005112311750100.htm (528 words)

	Devil's Advocate: Nitish Kumar : nitish kumar, devil's advocate, karan thapar : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nitish Kumar: We have promised that we will improve not only law and order but will also provide good governance.
		Nitish Kumar: I don’t know what you have read in police records but one thing I want to tell you is that as far as law and order is concerned, it has improved.
		Mr Kumar was thoroughly grilled by Mr Thaper.But I liked Nitish frank attitude.He has courage,calibre and wisdom...
	www.ibnlive.com /news/devils-advocate-nitish-kumar/11675-4.html (577 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		But the same Nitish Kumar turned a blind eye to lucrative railway contracts being given on a platter to the strongman of Mokama and terror in the region, Suraj Bhan.
		Although in his chequered political career Nitish Kumar has been a Union minister of railways, surface transport and agriculture, the road is still in bad shape.
		Kumar didn’t deign to reply, for the answer was in the air.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1051126/asp/opinion/story_5523132.asp (894 words)

	Tainted legislator given deputy minister status by Nitish Kumar - India News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Nitish Kumar government's decision Monday to accord Nityanand Rai, currently out on bail and a known bahubali for his muscle power, the status of a deputy minister has raised eyebrows in political circles here.
		It contradicts the stand of Nitish Kumar, who soon after taking oath last November had declared that he would not include any tainted or criminal-turned legislators in his government.
		Nitish Kumar is heading a 27-member council of ministers and the expansion of the council has been delayed.
	www.indiaenews.com /politics/20060613/11212.htm (539 words)

	George-Nitish feud to the fore - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Nalanda, George Fernandes was said to be at the ‘mercy’ of Nitish Kumar and therefore shifted to his old constituency Muzaffarpur.
		But given the fact that Mr Kumar had scraped through by a margin of just 1,300 votes from Barh in the previous elections, he perhaps was feeling unsafe and therefore wanted to contest from Nalanda.
		He even tried to clarify that Nitish Kumar was not ready to contest from Nalanda as well but had to accept the party decision.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/mar282004/n6.asp (598 words)

	Punjab Kesari NewsDetails
		Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's surprising silence over repeated criticism from his estranged colleague George Fernandes is part of a strategy to prevent any factionalism in the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U), reliable political sources say.
		Last week, the veteran socialist called Nitish Kumar and Yadav 'autocrats' over their working style, both within the party and in the government.
		Nitish Kumar and Yadav do not want to invite trouble for the party and the government by reacting to Fernandes, a JD-U leader said.
	www.punjabkesari.com /frmNewsDetails.aspx?uid=33906 (493 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nitish Kumar comes to office on a verdict that is rather complex.
		The larger sentiment behind the massive vote for Nitish Kumar was the yearning for change, not merely of person and party at the helm, but change in the entire ethos of power and the way it is to be employed.
		His clean image is Nitish Kumar’s great asset but if he is not dexterous enough in handling unsavoury elements, it could even become a liability for him.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main15.asp?filename=Ne121005One_down.asp (434 words)

	Nitish Kumar to turn teacher to unruly lawmakers- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Nitish Kumar is concerned about the behaviour of his legislators and plans to teach them how to behave with dignity in public," a Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader said.
		Nitish Kumar's helplessness is evident from the fact that Bihar assembly speaker Udai Narayan Choudhary has been asked to request Gopal Mandal, a JD-U legislator, to vacate the government guesthouse he occupied in December.
		Mandal, a legislator from Gopalpur constituency in Bhagalpur, occupied the entire four-room guesthouse of the electricity department soon after Nitish Kumar formed the government.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1689628.cms (359 words)

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