Congress mocks NDA’s ‘26-second’ Bihar manifesto launch, says ruling alliance afraid to face questions

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In this representation  posted connected  Oct. 31, 2025, Congress president   Mallikarjun Kharge with elder  enactment      person  Jairam Ramesh addresses a property   conference, successful  New Delhi.

In this representation posted connected Oct. 31, 2025, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge with elder enactment person Jairam Ramesh addresses a property conference, successful New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI

Taking a swipe astatine the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) implicit its manifesto motorboat for the Bihar Assembly predetermination connected Friday (October 31, 2025), the Congress claimed that the ruling conjugation had wrapped up its property league successful “just 26 seconds”.

The Opposition enactment claimed that the NDA’s leaders cognize they are “not returning to power” and truthful recovered it a “waste of time” to reply the public’s questions.

Congress wide caput (communications) Jairam Ramesh remarked that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar did not utter a azygous connection astatine the event, suggesting that “it is imaginable that helium himself has not adjacent work his manifesto properly.”

Recalling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s caller assertion that Bihar’s younker are making societal media reels acknowledgment to inexpensive data, Mr. Ramesh remarked, “Perhaps taking inspiration from that, NDA leaders excessively wrapped up their property league successful conscionable 26 seconds.”

‘Waste of time’

“In fact, it is not truly their responsibility — successful the past 20 years, they had thing worthwhile to number successful the sanction of achievement. They besides cognize precise good that they are not returning to powerfulness aft the election, truthful discussing the manifesto and facing the public’s questions felt similar a discarded of clip to them,” Mr. Ramesh said successful a station connected X.

Senior Congress person Ashok Gehlot besides slammed the NDA, alleging that Mr. Kumar was “not allowed” to talk astatine the manifesto release, calling it “an insult to Bihar”. “The NDA leaders came to a property league that lasted simply 26 seconds. They were acrophobic to look questions from journalists connected the manifesto arsenic good arsenic connected their governance,” Mr. Gehlot said successful Patna.

At the little event, Mr. Kumar and his lawman Samrat Choudhary, BJP president J.P. Nadda, and Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Jitan Ram Manjhi and Chirag Paswan unveiled the manifesto. Only the Deputy Chief Minister stayed backmost to instrumentality questions.

Published - October 31, 2025 09:46 p.m. IST

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