US singer wades into Nitish Kumar remark row, Priyanka Chaturvedi says ‘sit down…’

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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi lashed out at US singer-actor Mary Millben after the latter waded into the controversy surrounding Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his remarks on population control...

In a nearly three-minute video posted on X (formerly Twitter), Mary Millben put Nitish Kumar on blast, and said that if she was a citizen of India, she would move to the eastern state and contest for the Chief Ministerial post..

After Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Jis comments, I believe a courageous woman needs to step up and declare her candidacy to run for the Chief Minister of Bihar..

A controversy erupted on Tuesday when Nitish Kumar spoke, almost in graphic detail, about the role of women's education in population control, triggering an uproar from the BJP MLAs in the Bihar assembly..

Nitish Kumar made the controversial remarks while underlining the need for women's education to check population growth and how Bihar's fertility rate has dropped from 4.2 to 2.9 per cent...

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