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Congress dominated Bihar until the 1980s with 169 seats and 39% vote share, but Mandal politics and the JP Movement fragmented its base.

The party lacks charismatic local leaders and a Bihar-specific narrative, with Delhi-centric appointments creating weak state units overshadowed by BJP's nationalism, RJD's social justice, and Nitish's governance

To revive, Congress must decentralize leadership, rebuild grassroots organization, project credible OBC/Dalit faces, and reclaim the EBC-Dalit-Minority

On a November morning in Patna, a few Congress workers gather under the fading signboard of the Sadaqat Ashram — once the ideological nerve centre of Bihar’s freedom movement, is now an echo chamber of nostalgia. The party office, with its yellowing portraits of Mahatma

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