Nitish Kumar to take oath as Bihar Chief Minister for record 10th time

November 20, 2025 9:36 AM

Nitish Kumar to take oath as Bihar Chief Minister for record 10th time

Janata Dal (United) chief Nitish Kumar will be sworn in as Bihar’s Chief Minister for a record 10th time on Thursday. The oath-taking ceremony will be held at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan, a venue steeped in political history. Gandhi Maidan has hosted Kumar’s swearing-ins in 2005, 2010, and 2015, and is also remembered for Jayaprakash Narayan’s historic 1974 call for a “total revolution.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and several other senior NDA leaders are...

Mahagathbandhan names Tejashwi Yadav as chief ministerial face for Bihar elections

October 23, 2025 4:45 PM

Mahagathbandhan names Tejashwi Yadav as chief ministerial face for Bihar elections

Ending weeks of speculation, the Grand Alliance (Mahagathbandhan) in Bihar on Wednesday officially declared RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav as its Chief Ministerial candidate for the upcoming Assembly elections. The announcement was made at a joint press conference held at Hotel Maurya in Patna, where senior Congress leader and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot made the declaration in the presence of leaders from all alliance partners. “Tejashwi Yadav is young, capable, and a man of com...