A bigger group of Congress leaders from Bihar, most of them expelled from the occasion after the debacle within the 2025 meeting polls, on Tuesday staged a dharna exterior Indira Bhavan, the Congress headquarters within the nationwide capital, to demand removing of the state unit chief Rajesh Kumar and the occasion in-charge Krishna Allavaru. They’ve additionally sought an appointment to fulfill Chief of the Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi to appraise him of the problems of the occasion employees.
Led by Anand Madhav, a former spokesperson of the Bihar unit of the Congress, the dharna was held from 11am to 4pm. HT reported on August 29 {that a} part of Bihar leaders would stage a dharna.
Madhav mentioned they needed to stage the protest as a result of they had been going unheard.
“A political occasion will be run on political imaginative and prescient and by political leaders, not by any agent. Present in cost and president doesn’t have political imaginative and prescient, they’re operating occasion like a company that too in NGO format. Infact we really feel that Krishna Allavaru and Rajesh Ram are working as they’re above occasion structure and occasion president. They’re engaged on their whims and fancies. And making mockery of Bihar congress by popping out with weirded concepts,” he advised HT.
“We needed to take this step as a result of our points stay unheard. We additionally need that the expulsion notices in opposition to us must be withdrawn and we must be reinstated in respectable positions within the BPCC,” Madhav mentioned, including that they had been searching for a gathering with senior occasion chief Rahul Gandhi additionally..
One other expelled chief Shaukat Ali, former district president of Gopalganj, advised reporters: “We need to meet [Rahul] Gandhi to inform him the precise scenario of the occasion. We have now 4 key calls for that features our assembly with Rahul Gandhi. Bihar Congress wants a revamp.”
Senior Congress chief and AICC member Kishore Jha mentioned a disgruntled faction of state Congress employees has been constantly demanding that the occasion excessive command take away the state management and the state in-charge after the final meeting election outcomes.
“They’ve additionally been making persistent efforts to fulfill the excessive command to supply key options for the occasion’s enchancment within the state; nonetheless, as their issues had been ignored, they had been compelled to take such steps to press for his or her calls for. To stage a dharna is an unlucky choice however I urge the excessive command to have interaction with these people and take the mandatory steps.”