From pre-Emergency to post-Lalu era, the story of Congress’s irreversible decline in Bihar

Patna/New Delhi: On 26 October 2023, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav walked into the premises of Patna’s Sadaqat Ashram, where the Congress was holding an event to mark the birth anniversary of Bihar’s first chief minister, Shri Krishna Sinha.

In many ways, for Lalu Prasad Yadav, and more importantly for the Congress, the moment marked a full circle in the party’s political journey in Bihar—from the heyday of its sweeping domination to its long, steady decline.

After all, Sadaqat Ashram in Patna has been a silent witness to over a century of the party’s political history, first as a hub of the freedom movement, and later, as the headquarters of the Congress’s Bihar unit. Show Full Article

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