After facing poll debacle in the recently concluded Assembly elections, a group of Congress party leaders in Bihar sat on protest inside State party office at Sadaqat Ashram in Patna and raised slogans against senior party leaders. The dissident party leaders were, earlier, served show cause notices for their alleged anti-party activities. State woman wing president Sarwat Jahan Fatima resigned from her post in protest of denial of a ticket to contest the Assembly elections.
The protesting Congress party leaders were said to be angry over ticket distribution in the recently concluded Assembly elections for which results were announced on November 14. Under Opposition mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) the Congress party had contested 61 seats and won only six of them in the poll. In last 2020 Assembly elections, the party had contested on 70 seats and won 19 of them.
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The Independent Purnea MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, though, tried to pacify the protesting Congress leaders and reason out with them while sitting on the floor of the party office. The protesting Congress leaders, however, refused to listen him and continued with their protest against him, as well as top State party leadership for “giving party tickets to wrong candidates in the poll”. Mr Yadav is said to be close to some top party leadership and his wife Ranjit Ranjan is party Rajya Sabha MP from Chhattisgarh. She was also a former Congress MP in Lok Sabha from Supaul parliamentary constituency of Bihar.
