New Delhi, Nov. 20 -- Nitish Kumar has been elected as the leader of the NDA in Bihar and will take oath as chief minister in Patna today. This is the tenth time he will be administered the chief ministerial oath in the state, the highest for any chief minister ever in India. Conventionally, Kumar, given the years he has spent as CM, should have taken oath only five times, not nine -- that would have put him in a club of 14 other such chief ministers in India - but his politics has been far from conventional. To be sure, Nitish is not the longest serving chief minister in the country by some distance. P12
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