Patna: Senior Congress leader Shakeel Ahmad has resigned from the party's primary membership as the polling for the second phase of the Bihar Assembly elections 2025 concluded on Tuesday. The former Minister of State for Home Affairs in the UPA government cited differences with fellow party leaders as the reason behind his decision, giving a massive jolt to the Congress party ahead of the results for the Bihar assembly elections.

Shakeel Ahmad, a five-time MLA and MP, has been a stalwart of the Congress party, with a family legacy of serving the party dating back to the pre-independence era. His grandfather, Ahmad Ghafoor, was elected as a Congress MLA in 1937, followed by his father, Shakoor Ahmad, who served as a Congress MLA five times between 1952 and 1977. Shakeel Ahmad himself has

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