From Nitish Kumar’s performance as Railways Minister that convinced former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to project him as the NDA’s chief ministerial candidate to his ideas on women’s empowerment and his views on socialism, secularism and communalism, a book documents the Bihar CM’s speeches in Parliament and the less talked about facets of his time as a parliamentarian.

Published in five volumes, Nitish Kumar’s Statesmanship in Parliament has been edited by political scientist and Bihar OBC Commission’s former member Jag Narayan Singh Yadav and was recently released in Patna. “Though there are many takeaways from Nitish Kumar’s speeches in Parliament, what stands out is his unflinching commitment to secularism and the cohesiveness. This approach was deeply influenced by the so

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