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Amid fissures among enactment leaders successful the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee aft the party, portion contesting 61 seats, won conscionable six successful the 243-member Assembly elections recently, erstwhile three-term MLA, two-time MP, and Union Minister Shakeel Ahmad connected Monday (January 26, 2026) apprehended that determination could beryllium an onslaught connected him and his residences successful Patna and Madhubani the adjacent day. However, nary specified onslaught was reported astatine either spot connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026).
Earlier, connected Saturday (January 24, 2026), Mr. Ahmad had called enactment person Rahul Gandhi a “coward and insecure” person who, helium alleged, promotes young leaders who sing paeans wrong the party. The erstwhile Congress person had resigned from the enactment successful November 2025.
“Just now, immoderate Congress colleagues secretly informed maine that the Congress enactment has directed the Bihar Congress/youth Congress helping to transportation retired onslaught connected my residences successful Patna and Madhubani connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026) nether the pretext of burning an effigy. This is against the principles of democracy,” Mr. Ahmad said successful a station connected societal media precocious astatine nighttime connected Monday (January 26, 2026).
Later, speaking to media persons, Mr. Ahmad added that helium had received aggregate telephone calls from friends successful the Congress enactment who told him that enactment workers had been asked to transportation retired an onslaught connected him and his residences. Mr. Ahmad besides blamed Congress person Rahul Gandhi for being “behind specified directions to transportation retired onslaught connected his residences”. “It is precise evident that Congress leaders similar Rahul Gandhi is down specified orders fixed to Bihar Congress and younker leaders,” helium alleged.
Soon after, helium further shared a screenshot of a WhatsApp radical chat successful his societal media station successful which a person, whom Mr. Ahmad claimed was a Bihar Youth Congress leader, had asked different radical members to pain effigies of Mr. Ahmad and reason him with “much unit astatine the absorption apical enactment leadership”. He said his “information were proven right”. He besides thanked his aged friends successful the Congress enactment with an adage, “only aged friends travel guardant to help”, and asked further, “is it happening without an bid from Rahul ji?”.
Earlier, connected Saturday, Mr. Ahmad, portion speaking connected a quality platform, had called Rahul Gandhi a “coward and insecure person who promotes young leaders who sing paeans to him successful the party”. He aboriginal alleged that the “future of Congress enactment depends connected aboriginal of Narendra Modi”. “When Modi volition autumn and fail, Congress volition automatically travel into powerfulness arsenic the enactment is presently astatine fig 2 position. Earlier, it [Congress party] was astatine fig 1 and BJP was astatine fig 2 presumption but contiguous it is vice versa, Rahul Gandhi thinks so”, Mr. Ahmad alleged, portion calling Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge a puppet.
Mr. Ahmad has been a three-time Congress MLA from the Bisfi constituency successful Madhubani territory of northbound Bihar and a two-term MP from Madhubani. He besides served arsenic Minister of State for Home Affairs from April 6, 2008, to May 23, 2009, nether past Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He resigned from the enactment connected November 11, 2025, erstwhile Bihar was undergoing Assembly elections, the results of which were announced connected November 14, alleging Rahul Gandhi to beryllium “dictatorial and non-democratic who does perceive to adjacent elder enactment leaders successful the Congress”.
However, determination was nary accusation of immoderate onslaught connected Mr. Ahmad’s residences either successful Patna oregon successful Madhubani connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026). “I bash not cognize wherefore Mr. Ahmad is saying each this bunkum… determination is nary onslaught contiguous connected immoderate of his residences by anyone… helium whitethorn person fixed specified statements successful media for inexpensive publicity,” Bihar Congress spokesperson Asit Nath Tiwari told The Hindu.
Other State enactment leaders, speaking connected information of anonymity, besides “condemned” Mr. Ahmad’s caller statements towards the “top enactment leadership” and said helium mightiness beryllium doing each this for “cheap publicity”.
Of late, determination was buzz successful governmental circles successful Bihar that each six Congress MLAs would power their governmental allegiance to the JD(U). However, aft gathering the apical enactment leadership, including Rahul Gandhi, successful New Delhi recently, the MLAs refuted the speculation and expressed loyalty to the party.
