Ahead of Bihar assembly polls, Congress releases 42-page 'chargesheet' against Nitish Kumar government

Asserting that the Bihar assembly polls volition person a "national impact", the Congress connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) unveiled a 42-page 'chargesheet' against the Nitish Kumar government, alleging that 20 years of NDA regularisation person wrought "destruction" upon the State.

The booklet, evocatively titled 'Bees Saal Vinaash Kaal', was released astatine the humanities Sadaqat Ashram successful Patna, the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters, successful the beingness of apical enactment leaders, including AICC nationalist wide caput Jairam Ramesh and erstwhile main ministers of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Singh Baghel, respectively.

Speaking to reporters connected the occasion, Mr. Ramesh alleged that corruption was rampant successful the NDA government, which was "run done distant power from extracurricular Bihar... Delhi and Nagpur (RSS headquarters)".

"This alleged treble motor feeds connected spoils of powerfulness (sattaa ki malaai)," alleged the Rajya Sabha MP who claimed that "Bihar has moved backwards, successful the past 20 years, successful health, education, employment procreation and each different markers of maturation portion corruption and transgression were connected the rise".

"We bash instrumentality into relationship that the 20 years person little interludes of 'palti' (flip)," quipped Mr. Ramesh, successful an evident excavation astatine Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the JD(U) president who has aligned with the RJD-Congress harvester doubly successful the past 1 decade.

Mr. Ramesh besides alleged that the BJP, which rules the Centre, has been "opposed" to societal justness and had a relation successful litigation challenging the caste survey successful Bihar.

"Despite Nitish Kumar's instrumentality to the NDA, the hike successful quotas for weaker sections, which got quashed by the Patna High Court, was not enactment successful the ninth docket of the Constitution. When reservations were raised to 69 per cent, these got protected against judicial involution arsenic the authorities headed by past Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, with erstwhile Congress president Sitaram Kesri arsenic the curate for societal welfare, had enactment the authorities successful the ninth schedule," said Mr. Ramesh.

The Congress leaders, however, did not talk connected seat-sharing arrangements successful the INDIA bloc, which includes, too Congress and RJD, the Left and a fewer different smaller parties.

"We are successful talks with our confederation partners connected a regular basis. We are going to conscionable again today. In a fewer days, we volition marque everything public. We volition besides travel up with our manifesto," said Rajesh Kumar, the Bihar Congress president, who was contiguous astatine the property conference.

Mr. Baghel described the NDA authorities successful Bihar arsenic "a treble motor of which the pistons person fixed mode and his, hence, emitting a batch of smoke".

Mr. Gehlot questioned the efficacy of the much-hyped Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana launched recently, and alleged that the authorities successful Bihar had failed to instrumentality effectual measures to guarantee a dependable healthcare system, dissimilar the 1 helium ran successful Rajasthan.