Nitish- 9th time Cm

Nitish Kumar is back to where he was in July 2022 - with the BJP. He is still the Chief Minister of Bihar, though he has got two new deputies, both from the BJP, instead of his long-time friend Sushil Kumar Modi, who has moved on as a Rajya Sabha MP after August 2022 when Nitish Kumar ditched the BJP and rejoined the Mahagathbandhan.

After taking oath for the ninth time as Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar told reporters, "We are going to stay together now."

"You all know how I came to this (Mahagathbandhan) alliance and also how I worked to bring together so many parties. But of late things were not working well. It was not going down well with those in my party as well," Nitish Kumar, 72, said.