PATNA, March 24 -- As expected, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was on Tuesday elected unopposed as the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) national president yet another time, as no other candidate filed nomination for the party's top post.

It will be his fifth term as party president.

While Kumar remained in Patna travelling as part of his Samriddhi Yatra sharing the Bihar government's roadmap for 2025-2030 to achieve rapid all-round development, the certificate of his unopposed election as party president was handed over to JD(U) working president and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Kumar Jha by Aneel Prasad Hegde, the returning officer and former Rajya Sabha MP at a press Conference in New Delhi.

Nitish had taken over the reins of the party ahead of ...