New Delhi, Nov. 20 -- Nitish Kumar has been elected as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance (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. Kumar's first term as chief minister lasted just seven days in 2000 when his government had to resign after failing to muster a majority. He took oath for the second and third time after the October 2005 and 2010 assembly elections, when the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won a majority in Bihar. However, he quit as the chief minister after the Janata Dal (United) or JD(U)'s loss in the 2014 elections, which it contested without the BJP and the RJD and made Jitan Ram Manjhi, then a part of the JD(U), the chief minister. But Nitish took charge once again in 2015 before the assembly elections, making it his fourth instance of being administered the oath of chief minister's office. Nitish was sworn as the chief minister after the 2015 and 2020 elections as well, once as the leader of the JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance (in 2015) and once as leader of the NDA (in 2020)....