New Delhi: A gathering between the Congress excessive command and the social gathering’s leaders from Bihar on Thursday noticed heated exchanges over the roles of state chief Rajesh Ram and  All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge Krishna Allavaru, amongst others.

It’s understood that Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition Rahul Gandhi individually met with six MLAs and candidates who had misplaced, in batches.

Sources within the social gathering stated that two candidates had a very offended confrontation when the huddle was forming forward of Kharge and Rahul’s arrival. Er. Sanjeev Singh, who contested unsuccessfully from Vaishali, accused the state management of bringing in “outsiders”, which led to objections from Purnia candidate Jitendra Kumar.

Kumar is perceived to be near Lok Sabha MP Pappu Yadav, who received from Purnia as an Unbiased candidate and has since supported the Congress. Yadav, who was additionally current on the assembly, denied any such altercation occurred.

Er. Sanjeev Singh additionally issued a denial, however the sources confirmed the altercation occurred within the ready room earlier than their assembly with Kharge and Rahul.

When Kharge and Rahul had been knowledgeable concerning the incident, they reprimanded Singh and warned others that such behaviour would end in disciplinary motion. The management sought detailed reviews from every candidate.

आज बिहार चुनाव परिणाम को लेकर सभी प्रत्याशियों और वरिष्ठ नेताओं के साथ गहन चर्चा हुई। जिसमें 2 तरह के आंकलन हुए।

पहला आकलन
⦁ वोट खरीदी
⦁ चुनाव प्रक्रिया की धज्जियां उड़ाना

दूसरा आकलन
⦁ महागठबंधन और कांग्रेस पार्टी

: बिहार कांग्रेस प्रभारी @Allavaru जी pic.twitter.com/oDEwKwYrPC

— Bihar Congress (@INCBihar) November 27, 2025

An MP instructed ThePrint that he raised issues in the course of the assembly, suggesting that Allavaru ought to have toured the districts forward of the elections, which had been held in two phases on 6 and 11 November, fairly than remaining in Patna.

He additionally criticised the method of Rajesh Ram and Shakeel Ahmad Khan, the legislative social gathering chief of Congress, within the state. “Somebody must be held accountable. The in-charge spoke about reaching each sales space, however he didn’t even go to each district,” the MP stated.

An MLA identified that the cracks within the social gathering’s alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), resulting in “so-called pleasant fights in a minimum of 11 seats,” had broken the Opposition’s prospects and despatched a improper message to the voters.

The MLA additionally highlighted the ‘Asaduddin Owaisi issue,’ noting that the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) had capitalised on the Bharatiya Janata Occasion’s polarising rhetoric by consolidating Muslims behind it by means of a communally charged counter-narrative.

In an interview with ThePrint earlier this month, Congress MP Tariq Anwar had flagged the AIMIM’s rising affect in Bihar. 

Anwar had stated that the victory of 5 AIMIM candidates mirrored the growing sway of fundamentalists among the many Muslims, a response to the rising “Hindu communalism.” He steered that elements of the neighborhood had been shifting towards Muslim identity-based events as a result of they considered the Congress as ineffective in countering the BJP.

Former Bihar Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh confirmed {that a} constituency-wise assessment was carried out in the course of the assembly.

After the assembly ended, Rajesh Ram instructed reporters that the session continued late into the night as everybody was given a good listening to. 

Nevertheless, he averted questions concerning the heated exchanges, claiming that “all of the candidates stated in unison that the authorized means of SIR (Particular Intensive Revision) was adopted to hold out vote theft by means of the Election Fee.”

Already a marginal participant within the state’s politics, the Congress managed to win solely six of the 61 seats it contested this time, registering an astonishingly low strike charge of 9.8 % and coming tantalisingly near its worst efficiency in 2010, when it received 4 seats.

(Edited by Tony Rai)

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