New Delhi, Nov. 20 -- Nitish Kumar, the Janata Dal (United) supremo, is all set to take oath as chief minister of Bihar at a mega event at Patna's iconic Gandhi Maidan today, 20 November. This will be the 10th time that Kumar, 74, will take oath as Bihar CM in the last 20 years.

Nitish Kumar became Bihar CM for the first time in 2000. The government collapsed within eight days. His next stint began in 2005. Since then, there has been no stopping him until 2014, when he resigned after JD(U)'s poor performance in the Lok Sabha elections that year, only to be sworn in as CM again.

The last time he took the oath as Chief Minister was in January 2024, when he and his party switched to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic ...