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Bihar Elections: Why Does Not Nitish Kumar Contest Assembly Polls?

Bihar Chief Minister for the last 20 years, he has not contested any election to the state assembly all this while

Patna: Why Nitish Kumar does not contest the Bihar Assembly elections? This is a question being debated around the Bihar Chief Minister, who has been at the helm of power in the state since 2005, barring a few months in 2014-15. All this while he has stayed away from polls, while taking the legislative council route to run the state. With the assembly elections approaching again, he is once again unlikely to contest. This has led to the opposition charge that he is afraid of contesting elections.

Political observers also believe that the Chief Minister should be someone directly

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