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Senior Congress leaders connected Sunday (November 9, 2025) launched a scathing onslaught connected the ruling BJP-JD(U) confederation successful Bihar, alleging that the NDA has already “conceded defeat” successful the ongoing Assembly elections and accusing it of large-scale corruption and administrative negligence implicit the past 2 decades.
Addressing presspersons successful Patna, Congress person Pawan Khera claimed that pursuing the high elector turnout successful the archetypal phase and increasing nationalist enactment for the Opposition INDIA bloc up of the last signifier connected November 11, NDA leaders person begun vacating their authoritative residences. “Sensing defeat, officials nether NDA leaders are shifting important files,” helium alleged, informing that it would not beryllium astonishing if fires broke retired astatine locations wherever these files are stored.
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Mr. Khera, who heads the Congress’s media and publicity wing, besides criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his arguable “katta” remark astatine caller rallies. Mr. Modi had suggested that if the RJD-led Opposition came to power, radical would beryllium threatened with country-made guns. “The Prime Minister has insulted Bihar’s younker and should apologise,” Mr. Khera said.
Meanwhile, Congress wide caput (communications) Jairam Ramesh accused the BJP-JD(U) authorities of “looting” Bihar done corruption and mismanagement. In a station connected X, Mr. Ramesh cited the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) 2025 report, alleging that the Bihar authorities spent ₹70,877.61 crore without submitting 49,649 utilisation certificates, leaving nary grounds of however the funds were used.
He claimed that funds meant for Dalits, backward communities, farmers, health, education, and societal payment were either misused oregon near unspent. Departments specified arsenic education, agrarian development, municipality development, and SC/ST payment were among those with the highest unaccounted expenditures.
Mr. Ramesh highlighted that implicit the past 5 years, ₹3.59 lakh crore successful budgetary allocations remained mostly unutilised, with up to 35% of the Budget going unspent successful immoderate years. He said important schemes specified arsenic the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the mid-day repast programme saw much than fractional their funds unspent, straight impacting children’s acquisition and nutrition. “Out of each 100 rupees approved for children’s education, the authorities did not walk astir 50 rupees,” helium said.
He further alleged that centrally sponsored schemes specified arsenic the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and SC/ST/OBC payment programmes besides suffered from underutilisation, with an mean of 40% of funds remaining unused.
Polling for the 2nd and last signifier volition instrumentality spot connected November 11, and the results volition beryllium announced connected November 14.
