Patna, Jan 28 (Reporter) Nitish Kumar took oath as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the first time on March 3, 2000, after campaigning vociferously against Lalu Prasad Yadav's 'Jungle-Raj' and continuing only for a brief period of 7 days as he could not prove his majority.He again formed the government on November 24, 2005, in alliance with the BJP, and has since then continued as CM of Bihar, except for a brief period of nearly ten months, from May 20, 2014, until February 21, 2015, when he handed over the regency to Jitan Ram after his party's debacle in the Lok Sabha elections of 2017, from 2000 to 2022. Kumar took the oath eight times as CM.He had snapped a 17-year-old alliance with the BJP in 2013 following the announcement of Narendra Modi as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate and fought the 2014 Lok Sabha polls alone and the 2015 assembly elections in alliance with the RJD.In 2017, he returned to the NDA, accusing the RJD of corruption and choking governance in the state, and contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and 2020 Bihar Assembly elections as part of the BJP-led NDA alliance. Again in 2022, blaming the BJP for conspiring against him and trying to influence JD-U MLAs to rebel against him, Kumar quit the NDA to form the Grand Alliance government with the RJD, Congress, and Left parties.Within two years of founding the Samata Party with George Fernandes in 1996, Kumar had switched over to the BJP and was made minister in the Atal Bihar Vajpayee-led NDA government. In 2003, when Lalu Prasad Yadav formed the RJD after his split with Sharad Yadav, Nitish Kumar merged his Samata Party with the Janata Dal, and the new alliance was named Janata Dal (United).Kumar, who had been active in politics since the student movement of 1974, played a vital role in making Lalu Prasad Yadav Chief Minister of Bihar in the year 1990.He was elected MLA for the first time in 1985 from the Harnauth Assembly Constituency and was elected MP for the first time in 1989 from the Barh Parliament seat. Thereafter, he continuously won the Lok Sabha elections in 1996, 1998, and 1999.He became railway minister in 1998 and agricultural minister in 1999...////...