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Nitish Kumar

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| date = 18 June |
| year = 2006 |
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| term_start3 = 26 November 2010
| predecessor1 = [[President's rule]]
| 1blankname1 = Deputy CM
| 1namedata1 = [[Sushil Kumar Modi]]
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| term_end1 = 10 March 2000
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| term_end3 = 21 May 2004
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| successor3 = [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]]
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| term_end4 = 5 August 1999
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'''Nitish Kumār''' ({{lang-hi|[[:hi:नितीश कुमार|नितीश कुमार]]}} ''Nitīśa Kumāra''; born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician currently serving as [[Chief Minister]] of [[Bihar]], an eastern state of [[India]]. He leads the [[Janata Dal (United)]] party. As the Chief Minister, he has gained popularity by initiating a series of developmental and constructive activities including building of long-delayed bridges, re-laying roads that had ceased to exist, appointing over 100,000 school teachers, ensuring that doctors worked in primary health centers, and keeping crime in check.<ref name="sify1">{{cite news
|url=http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?a=jfbn4Ebeibj&title=Nitish_Kumar_s_development_agenda_makes_waves_in_Bihar&?vsv=TopHP3
|title=Nitish Kumar's development agenda makes waves in Bihar
|date=2009-05-01|work=Lok Sabha Elections 2009
|publisher=Sify News
|accessdate=2009-05-26}}</ref>

==Early life and career==
Nitish Kumār was born in [[Bakhtiarpur]], Bihar to ''Kaviraj'' Ram Lakhan Singh and Parmeshwari Devi. His father was a freedom fighter and was close to the great [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhian]] ''Bihar Vibhuti'' [[Anugrah Narayan Sinha]], one of the founders of modern [[Bihar]]. His nickname is 'Munna'.<ref name="rediff1">"Thousands of people had gathered on the streets since early morning as the news came that 'Munnaji' was coming home." {{cite news
|url=http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/nov/25bpoll3.htm
|title=The town where Nitish is 'Munna'
|date=2005-11-25|work=India News
|publisher=Rediff News
|accessdate=2009-05-26}}</ref> He is a [[teetotaler]], does not smoke, and is a frugal eater.<ref name="tehelka1">{{cite news|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main15.asp?filename=Ne120305Constant_Gardener.asp
|title=Constant Gardener’s turn in the sun
|last=Simha
|first=Vijay|date=2005-12-03|work=News|publisher=[[Tehelka]]
|accessdate=2009-05-26}}</ref>

He has a degree in [[electrical engineering]] from the [[Bihar College of Engineering]], [[Patna]] now [[NIT Patna]]
.<ref>http://www.moneycontrol.com/biography/Nitish_Kumar/1061 Nitish's brief biography</ref>

==Political career==
Nitish Kumar belongs to a socialist class of politicians.He learnt the lessons of politics under the tutelage of stalwarts [[Jayaprakash Narayan]], [[Ram Manohar Lohia]], [[Karpoori Thakur]], [[S N Sinha]], [[George Fernandes]] and [[V. P. Singh]]<ref>http://polityindia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192:a-politician-other-politicians-should-emulate-&catid=13:article&Itemid=61</ref>.

===Early career===
Nitish Kumar participated in [[Jayaprakash Narayan]]'s movement<ref>Famous Indian personalities-Nitish Kumar[http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/nitish-kumar.html] Nitish Kumar,Chief Minister of Bihar </ref>between 1974 and 1977, and was close to [[Satyendra Narayan Sinha]], a prominent leader of the time. He was first elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1985 as an independent candidate. In 1987, he became the President of the Yuva [[Lok Dal]]. In 1989, he became the [[Secretary-General]] of the [[Janata Dal]] in Bihar. He was also elected to the 9th [[Lok Sabha]] the same year.

During his term as [[Minister of Railways (India)|Minister of Railways]], he brought widespread reforms.<ref>[http://archive.thepeninsulaqatar.com/looks-&-more/120609.html]</ref>

===Union Minister in Centre===
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In 1989, Nitish Kumar was appointed as the Union [[Minister of State]] for Agriculture in the Cabinet of Prime Minister [[Vishwanath Pratap Singh]]. In 1991, he was re-elected to the Lok Sabha and became General Secretary of the Janata Dal at the national level and the Deputy Leader of Janata Dal in the Parliament. He represented [[Barh]] parliamentary constituency in the [[Lok Sabha]] between 1989 and 2004.

He briefly served as the Union Cabinet Minister for Railways and Minister for Surface Transport and then as the Minister for Agriculture in 1998–99. In August 1999, he resigned following the [[Gaisal train disaster]]. As the Railways Minister he did remarkable job and implemented great ideas. He is the man who made lives of rail travellers easy by introducing internet ticket booking facility as well as opened record number of railway ticket booking counters. He introduced revolutionary tatkal scheme for instant booking. It is widely believed that he is the actual man behind turning otherwise bankrupt Indian railways into one of the most profit making department through his policies which were implemented and maintained by rail minister after him, Mr Lalu Yadav.

Later that year, he rejoined the Union Cabinet as Minister for Agriculture. From 2001 to May 2004, he served as the Union Cabinet Minister for Railways in the [[NDA]] Government of [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]. In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections he contested elections from two constituencies, [[Barh]] and [[Nalanda]]. He was elected from Nalanda but lost from his traditional constituency, Barh. He was the leader of the [[Janata Dal (United)]] Parliamentary Party in the Lok Sabha.

==Chief Minister of Bihar==
===1st Term (3 March 2000 – 10 March 2000)===
On 3 March 2000, Nitish Kumar was appointed the [[Chief Minister of Bihar]], but he resigned seven days later because failed to prove majority.

===2nd Term (24 November 2005 – 24 November 2010)===
In November 2005, he led the [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]] to victory in the 2005 [[Bihar]] assembly elections bringing an end to the 15-year rule of the [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]]-led [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]. He was sworn in as the [[Chief Minister of Bihar]] on 24 November 2005. Under his government, Bihar developed an electronic version of the [[Right to Information Act]]. In addition, he launched the E-shakti [[NREGS]] program, by which rural people can get employment information by telephone. He is credited with improving infrastructure, and reducing crime, widely felt to be serious problems in the state.

Under his governance Bihar has had a record number of criminal prosecutions through fast track courts. His government initiated a mandatory weekly meeting with all [[Deputy Commissioner (India)|District Magistrate]]s to monitor progress at the grassroot level. His government has generated employment in police services and teaching. Bihar recorded record construction work during his five year mandate, surpassing the national average.

Nitish Kumar government also initiated bicycle and meal programs – the government gave bicycles to girls who stayed in school – which saw Bihar getting huge number of girls into schools and fall in school drop out rates.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.economist.com/blogs/asiaview/2010/11/indias_poorest_state&fsrc=nwl | work=The Economist | title=A triumph in Bihar}}</ref> Women and extremely backward castes were given 50% reservation in electorals for the first time ever in India.

Health schemes were launched to improve village hospitals and the free medicine distribution system. Loan schemes for farmers were improved by involving national banks.

The state witnessed steep hike in [[GSDP]] growth, the second highest in the country. Bihar was recorded as the highest tax payer state in eastern India.

[[Dr. Abdul Kalam]], former President of India and Nitish Kumar initiated the [[Nalanda International University]] project, headed by the Prime Minister of India.

In 2010, Nitish Kumar's party swept back to power along with its ally [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]. On 26 November 2010, Nitish Kumar took oath as a Chief Minister of Bihar. This is his second consecutive term as Chief Minister of Bihar.[http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bihar-polls-jdubjp-combine-take-early-lead/135722-37-64.html?from=tn]

===3rd Term (26 November 2010 – Till Now)===
In a keenly fought contest, Nitish Kumar led JDU-BJP combine won with four-fifth majority. NDA won 206 seats while RJD won 22 seats. No party there has won enough seats to represent the opposition in the state assembly, which requires at least 25 seats to become eligible to represent the main opposition party.

For the first time electorates witnessed high turnout of women and young voters, while this election has been rated as the fairest Bihari election, with no bloodshed or poll violence.

==Personal life==

On 22 February 1973, Nitish Kumar married Manju Kumari Sinha, a teacher by profession.They have a son, Nishant, who is a graduate of [[Birla Institute of Technology|BIT]], [[Bit mesra|Mesra]].<ref>http://www.indianexpress.com/news/in-bihar-son-rise-on-a-different-horizon/442546/</ref> His wife died in 2007 at the age of 53. He is credited with giving a new face to Bihar. The kind of win his Government registered during 2010 Bihar Assembly is viewed among the biggest ever election win by anyone in Indian elections, where the entire opposition was almost wiped off. Many sections of media and political sections consider him as the best Chief Minister from India, able to bring success of governance in a state of turmoil, finishing caste, religion barrier and paving way for development. For his clean and Statesman like status he owns respect from his bitter opponents and all political parties including Congress whose many prominent leaders including chief [[Sonia Gandhi]], Home Minister [[P. Chidambaram]], NCP leader Agatha Sangma and congress Spokesman Ambika Soni , credited Nitish Kumar's clean, pro-citizen development oriented governance. It is a status which at current only Nitish Kumar enjoys, something a rare feat in Indian politics where someone achieves respect and appreciation from opposition along with landslide public support from all sections of Society.

==Awards and recognition==
* [[XLRI]],Jamshedpur "Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal" for Industrial & Social Peace 2011.<ref>[http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/economy/article1571232.ece]</ref>
* "MSN Indian of the year 2010"<ref>[http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4719413]</ref>
* [[NDTV Indian of the Year]] – Politics, 2010<ref>[http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?Id=NEWEN20110169755]</ref>
* [[Forbes]] "India's Person of the Year", 2010<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.forbes.com/2011/01/03/forbes-india-person-of-the-year-nitish-kumar.html | work=Forbes | title=A Person of the Year: Nitish Kumar | date=3 January 2011}}</ref>
* [[CNN-IBN]] "Indian of the Year Award" – Politics, 2010<ref>[http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/137243/cnnibn-ioty-in-politics-nitish-kumar.html Nitish Kumar, CNN IBN Indian of the year-2010]</ref>
* [[NDTV Indian of the year]] – Politics, 2009<ref>http://www.ndtv.com/news/videos/video_player.php?id=1204670</ref>
* Economics Times "Business reformer of the Year 2009".<ref>{{cite news| url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4931000.cms |work=The Times Of India |location=India | title=Features | date=25 August 2009}}</ref>
* 'Polio Eradication Championship Award' 2009, by Rotary Internationals.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Awards-galore-for-Nitish/articleshow/7153302.cms |work=The Times Of India |location=India}}</ref>
* [[CNN-IBN]] Great Indian of the Year – Politics, 2008<ref>http://www.indianoftheyear.com/index08.php Indian Of The Year 2008 -politics winner nitish kumar</ref>
* The Best [[Chief Minister]],<ref>http://ibnlive.in.com/features/rday/stateofthenation/cm.php</ref> according to the [[CNN]]-[[IBN]] and [[Hindustan Times|HT]] State of the Nation Poll 2007.

==Positions Held==

{| class="wikitable" border="0"
|-
! Period
! Positions
! Note
|-
|1977
|Contested first assembly elections on a [[Janata Party]] ticket.
|-
|1985–89
|Member, [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]].
|First term in Legislative Assembly
|-
|1986–87
|Member, Committee on Petitions, [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]].
|
|-
|1987–88
|President, Yuva Lok Dal, Bihar.
|
|-
|1987–89
|Member, Committee on Public Undertakings, [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]].
|
|-
|1989
|Secretary-General, [[Janata Dal]], Bihar.
|
|-
|1989
|Elected to [[9th Lok Sabha]].
|First term in [[Lok Sabha]]
|-
|1989-16 July 1990
|Member, House Committee.
|Resigned
|-
|4/1990-11/1990
|[[Ministry of Agriculture (India)|Union Minister of State, Agriculture]] and Co-operation.
|
|-
|1991
|Re-elected to [[10th Lok Sabha]].
|2nd term in [[Lok Sabha]]
|-
|1991–93
|General-Secretary, Janata Dal. Deputy Leader of Janata Dal in Parliament.
|
|-
|17/12/91-10/5/96
|Member, Railway Convention Committee.
|
|-
|8/4/93-10/5/96
|Chairman, Committee on Agriculture.
|
|-
|1996
|Re-elected to [[11th Lok Sabha]]. Member, Committee on Estimates. Member, General Purposes Committee. Member, Joint Committee on the Constitution (Eighty-first Amendment Bill, 1996).
|3rd term in [[Lok Sabha]]
|-
|1996–98
|Member, Committee on Defence.
|
|-
|1998
|Re-elected to [[12th Lok Sabha]].
|4th term in [[Lok Sabha]]
|-
|19/3/98-5/8/99
|[[Ministry of Railways (India)|Union Cabinet Minister, Railways]].
|
|-
|14/4/98-5/8/99
|Union Cabinet Minister, Surface Transport (additional charge).
|
|-
|1999
|Re-elected to [[13th Lok Sabha]].
|5th term in [[Lok Sabha]]
|-
|13/10/99-22 November 1999
|Union Cabinet Minister, Surface Transport.
|
|-
|22/11/99-3 March 2000
|[[Ministry of Agriculture (India)|Union Cabinet Minister, Agriculture]].
|
|-
|3/3/00-10/3/00
|[[Chief Minister, Bihar]].
| as 29th [[Chief Minister of Bihar]], only for 7 days
|-
|27/5/00-20 March 2001
|[[Ministry of Agriculture (India)|Union Cabinet Minister, Agriculture]].
|
|-
|20/3/01-21 July 2001
|[[Ministry of Agriculture (India)|Union Cabinet Minister, Agriculture]] with additional charge of [[Ministry of Railways (India)|Railways]].
|
|-
|22/7/01-21 May 2004
|[[Ministry of Railways (India)|Union Cabinet Minister, Railways]]
|
|-
|2004
|Re-elected to [[14th Lok Sabha]]. Member, Committee on Coal & Steel. Member, General Purposes Committee. Member, Committee of Privileges. Leader Janata Dal (U) Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha.
|6th term in [[Lok Sabha]]
|-
|From 24 November 2005 – 24 November 2010
|[[Chief Minister, Bihar]].
| as 31st [[Chief Minister of Bihar]],
|-
|From 26 November 2010 – Till Date
|[[Chief Minister, Bihar]].
| as 32nd [[Chief Minister of Bihar]]
|}

==See also==
*[[List of Chief Ministers of Bihar]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://gov.bih.nic.in/Governance/NitishKumar.htm Biography on Bihar Govt. web site]
* [http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=277 Biography on website of Lok Sabha]

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Uma Bharti

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'''Uma Ragini Bharti''' ({{lang-hi|उमा भारती}}) (born May 3, 1959, [[Tikamgarh]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[India]]), is an Indian politician. She was born in [[Tikamgarh District]], [[Madhya Pradesh]] to a religious [[Lodhi]] Rajput family and from a very young age, started holding discourses on Indian Epics.Her father was an atheist. Raised under the care of the late [[Vijayaraje Scindia|Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia]] of Gwalior, Uma Bharati, along with [[Sadhvi Ritambhara]], played a prominent part in the Ayodhya [[Ram Janmabhoomi]] Movement. Her signature slogan during the movement was, "राम-लाला हम आएंगे, मदिंर वही बनाएंगे!" ("Ramlala Hum Aayenge, Mandir Wahin Banayenge") which translates to "Dear Ram come we will, build a temple there we will".

At a young age, she became involved with the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]. She contested her first Parliamentary elections in 1984, but lost. In 1989, she successfully contested the [[Khajuraho (Lok Sabha constituency)|Khajurao]] seat, and retained it in elections conducted in 1991, 1996 and 1998. In 1999, she switched over and won the [[Bhopal (Lok Sabha constituency)|Bhopal]] seat. In the Vajpayee Administration, she held various state-level portfolios of Human Resource Development, Tourism, Youth Affairs & Sports, and finally Coal & Mines.

In the 2003 Assembly polls, she led the BJP to a three fourths majority in [[Madhya Pradesh]]. She defeated her Congress opponent from the Malehra seat with a 25% margin.

Uma Bharati resigned from the post of Chief Minister in August 2004, when an [[arrest warrant]] was issued against her regarding the [[1994 Hubli riots|1994 Hubli riot]] case.<ref name="toi">{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/824224.cms|title=BJP meet to decide Uma Bharati's fate|publisher=The Times of India|accessdate=2009-03-20}} {{Dead link|date=June 2011|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref><ref name="IE">{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/oldstory.php?storyid=53859|title=Uma ‘happily’ goes to jail ensuring party goes to town|publisher=Indian Express|accessdate=2009-03-20}}</ref>

==Exit from BJP and formation of Bharatiya Janshakti Party==
Firstly, in November 2004, she was suspended from the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] "till further action" and served a [[show-cause notice]] asking why she should not be expelled following her outburst against [[Lal Krishna Advani]], in full glare of Television cameras. However, due to RSS pressure, her suspension was revoked and in May 2005, she was appointed as a member of the party's national executive.

Later in the year, she was expelled from the BJP when she revolted against the appointment of Mr Shivraj Singh Chauhan as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, and for allegations of being digvijay singh's paramour. Post explusion, she undertook a herculean 'padyatra' from Bhopal to Ayodhya and called it the Ram Roti [[Yatra]] (spiritual journey for [[Rama]] and bread).

Later Uma Bharti found sympathisers in many dissiden BJP leaders like [[Madan Lal Khurana]] and [[Sangh Priya Gautam]] and tried to revive a new Hindu movement, which proved unsuccessful.

Though Uma Bharati drew huge crowds during her Ram Roti Yatra and campaign for various by-elections, her political fortunes have taken a nosedive. Her political outfit, called the BJSP ([[Bharatiya Janshakti Party]]) lost the by-election for her assembly seat of Bada Malehra, even though Uma Bharati had campaigned extensively for her candidate. BJSP has also experienced defeats in all Lok Sabha bypolls which the party has contested.

Though a section of the [[RSS]] and the [[BJP]] have been trying to get Bharati back into the BJP, neither an embittered Bharati, who has sworn revenge nor powerful politicians like [[Arun Jaitley]] or [[Sushma Swaraj]] want her back in the BJP. Speculation was further fueled when she did not field BJS contestants for Lok Sabha by-elections for two seats in Madhya Pradesh, held in March 2007.The BJP candidate for [[Gwalior]] was the daughter of her mentor, the late Vijayaraje Scindia. In another major turn of events, she agreed to withdraw her candidates to the 2007 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections at the request of the [[Vishwa Hindu Parishad]] chief, [[Ashok Singhal]]. Till date, both Uma and the BJP dismiss any speculation about her return to the party is , but media reports suggest she may return within a few months, in a move that will be co-ordinated by her allies within the BJP and RSS.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/04/14/stories/2007041417131600.htm | location=Chennai, India | work=The Hindu | title=Uma Bharti pulls out of race, in favour of BJP | date=April 14, 2007}}</ref>

== On Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project ==
On July 25, 2007, Uma Bharti began a week-days fast protesting over the [[Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project]] saying that the bridge be saved.

==Reinducted to BJP==
Uma Bharti returned to BJP after 6 years of split.It was announced in a press conference at [[New Delhi]] by party president [[Nitin Gadkari]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Back to BJP|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/uma-bharti-re-inducted-into-bjp/articleshow/8758452.cms|accessdate=7 June 2011|newspaper=Economic Times|date=7 June 2011}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|title=Uma Bharti rejoins BJP|url=http://news.worldsnap.com/politics/uma-bharti-rejoins-bjp-104613.html|accessdate=7 June 2011|publisher=WorldSnap News|date=7 June 2011}}</ref>

== Loses election from home turf ==
Uma Bharati lost the Tikamgarh seat, her home turf in Madhya Pradesh polls.Yadvendra Singh Bundela of the Congress trounced her with a margin of more than 9,000 votes as the votes were counted for the assembly elections held on November 27 2008.<ref>http://ibnlive.in.com/news/uma-bharati-defeated-in-home-turf-tikamgarh/80060-3.html</ref>

==Timeline==
{{start box}}
{{succession box
| before=[[Digvijay Singh]]
| title=[[Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh]]
| years=2003 - [[August 22]] [[2004]]
| after=[[Babulal Gaur]]
}}
{{end box}}

{{Sangh Parivar}}

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/nov/10uma.htm "''BJP suspends Uma Bharati''"] - [[rediff.com]] article dated November 10, 2004
* [http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/may/28uma.htm "''Uma Bharati in BJP national executive''"] - rediff.com article dated May 28, 2005
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3245988.stm "''India's firebrand Hindu nun''"] - [[BBC News]] article dated November 30, 2005
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3998315.stm BBC article on Uma Bharti's suspension]

==See also==
*[[Hindu nationalism]]

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