Dissident Bihar Congress leaders carry out sit-in protest, party’s State woman’s wing president resigns

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 20