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Barely 10 days earlier the recently elected 18th Bihar Assembly’s Budget Session is to beryllium convened, the State Congress enactment is yet to take its person successful the House. In the past Assembly election, the results of which were announced connected November 14, 2025, the Congress, contesting arsenic portion of the Mahagathbandhan, won lone six seats successful the 243-member Assembly.
All six enactment MLAs person been summoned to Delhi connected Friday (January 23, 2026) and are apt to conscionable the apical enactment leadership, arsenic the contented could not beryllium resolved astatine the State level during a gathering connected Thursday (January 22, 2026) with State Congress president Rajesh Ram and enactment State incharge Krishna Allavaru, on with different leaders. The Budget Session of the Assembly is scheduled to statesman connected February 2, 2026.
In caller days, determination was speculation successful governmental circles that each six recently elected Congress MLAs mightiness power allegiance to the ruling Janata Dal (United), but this was powerfully refuted by some JD(U) and State Congress leaders arsenic “speculation”. “I bash not cognize from wherever specified rumours originate but nary of our enactment MLAs are going anywhere...they would stay present successful the party,” Mr. Ram told mediapersons.
Meanwhile, enactment sources told The Hindu that “sustained efforts were made by elder State enactment leaders to take 1 of the six MLAs arsenic legislature enactment person but nary of them were consenting to beryllium chosen arsenic Leader of Legislature Party and that is wherefore the contented has been lingering connected for immoderate time”.
Of the six MLAs, 3 Surendra Prasad, Manoj Bishwas and Mohd. Qamrul Hoda person non-Congress backgrounds, having joined the enactment from the Rashtriya Lok Morcha, JD(U) and AIMIM, respectively. Among the remaining three, Manohar Prasad of Manihari joined the Congress successful 2015. “Out of 2 Abhishek Ranjan (Chanpatia) and Abdur Rehman (Araria), who person been successful the enactment for long, chances are that 1 of them could beryllium elected arsenic Congress Legislature Party person successful the State Assembly connected Friday,” a State enactment person said connected information of anonymity.
Party sources said that Mr. Ram and Mr. Allavaru held a gathering with enactment leaders, including the six MLAs, successful Patna connected Thursday (January 22, 2026), but nary sanction was announced. The MLAs volition present conscionable the apical enactment successful Delhi connected Friday, January 23, wherever a determination is apt to beryllium taken, a elder person said.
However, State enactment spokesperson Asit Nath Tiwari told The Hindu, “very soon the person of the Congress Legislature Party successful State Assembly volition beryllium announced…the apical enactment enactment is keeping oculus connected each and each item and improvement taking spot present successful the enactment successful Bihar”.
In the 17th Assembly, Shakeel Ahmad Khan, a two-time legislator from Kadwa successful Katihar, was elected arsenic the Congress Legislature Party leader, but helium mislaid successful the past election. The Congress had 19 MLAs successful the erstwhile Assembly, but this clip lone six candidates were elected, though 61 enactment candidates contested nether the Mahagathbandhan.
After the predetermination results were announced successful November 2025, murmurs emerged wrong the State portion that the enactment should “go solo” successful Bihar to amended its prospects. “For however agelong the Congress enactment volition beryllium walking connected RJD crutches successful Bihar?...the sooner it volition spell solo successful Bihar junking the RJD crutches, it volition beryllium amended for the party’s revival,” erstwhile All India Congress Committee subordinate Kishore Kumar Jha told The Hindu.
A conception of disgruntled leaders besides staged a dharna wrong the enactment office astatine Sadaqat Ashram, demanding “major structural and operational changes wrong the State unit”. “Unless enactment volition get escaped of dalals [agents] and bash replacement of apical State enactment leadership, the Congress enactment cannot dispersed its helping successful the State,” alleged Anand Madhab, a erstwhile president of the Bihar Congress Research Wing.
Earlier successful November 2025, the enactment had issued amusement origin notices to 43 leaders for alleged “anti-party activities”.
