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New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has been named the 'CNN-IBN Politician of the Year-2008'.
 According to a release by the channel, Nitish Kumar faced strong competition from his Delhi counterpart Sheila Dikshit, but eventually won the award "for turning around one of the most under-developed states in India and showing that ultimately, every adversity crumbles in the face of vision, belief and resolve".
The winners in other categories include Olympic shooting champion Abhinav Bindra for sports and Aamir Khan for entertainment.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G. Madhavan Nair and the team behind India's moon mission Chandrayaan have won awards in the public service category, while Aditya Puri of HDFC Bank topped in the business category.
The 'Global Indian' of the year went to A.R. Rahman "for his music in 'Slumdog Millionaire' and compositions for hits like 'Ghajini', 'Jodhaa Akbar' and 'Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na'".
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It's a fair award given to Sh. Nitish Kumar & pride for Bihar that this time we have minister like him who did so much development works in Bihar which changed entire situation like - excellent law and order & development situation there which is creating huge employment opportunity there.
Shyam Kumar Sinha
Bangalore
shyam.sinha@capgemini.com
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Dear Nitish Jee,
With this highly credible award of CNNIBN Politician of the year and several other recognitions in the past like Best CM of India etc to your cap, Biharis feel like dancing in the rain with their boundless joy and happiness. After all, why not? Bihar was always a subject of ridicule among pseudo advanced society across the country and Biharis were ridiculed by everybody including clowns like Raj Thackarey, a narrow minded anti-national shrewd street-level politician. Now with such distinct awards falling in line for Bihar and awards like National Award for e-governance and Bihar very low on crime charts, Biharis would definitely like to celebrate. Bihar’s achievements become also worth noticeable at a time when we find in our neighboring states like UP, state engineers are gored to death by MLAs for not bribing, in Bengal, TATA MOTORS forced to wind up with worst level of violence and in Orissa, Christian nuns are raped and chased. Bihar is moving leaps and bounds, progressing on every front under the just leadership of Nitish Kumar. We hope to see many more good news from the state.
Great job, Nitish Jee and congratulations to people of Bihar!
Sanjay Jha
Bangalore
sanjay_jha@mindtree.com
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