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With Nitish Kumar taking oath as chief minister of Bihar once again at Patna’s iconic Gandhi Maidan on Thursday, he solidifies his reputation as arguably the most enduring, and perhaps the most adaptable, political leader in contemporary Indian politics. He assumes the top post for a record-breaking tenth time, a testament not just to his administrative longevity but to an unmatched political survival instinct.

Born in 1951, Kumar, who holds an engineering degree from the National Institute of Technology, Patna, began his political career as a participant in the transformative JP Movement of the 1970s. Initially a protégé of Lalu Prasad Yadav, their paths diverged in the mid-1990s over issues of governance, leading Kumar to co-found the Samata Party with George

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