Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee | |
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President | Akhilesh Prasad Singh [1] |
Chairman | Shakeel Ahmad Khan |
Headquarters | Sadaqat Ashram, Patna-800010, Bihar |
Youth wing | Bihar Youth Congress |
Women's wing | Bihar Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee |
Ideology | |
Alliance | MGB |
Seats in Lok Sabha | 4 / 40 |
Seats in Rajya Sabha | 1 / 16 |
Seats in Bihar Legislative Assembly | 17 / 243 |
Seats in Bihar Legislative Council | 4 / 75 |
Election symbol | |
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The Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee or (BPCC) is the political unit of the Indian National Congress for the state of Bihar. It is responsible for organizing and coordinating the party's activities and campaigns within the state, as well as selecting candidates for local, state, and national elections for all districts of Bihar. Its head office is situated in Patna at the Sadaqat Ashram.
The current working presidents are Shyam Sunder Singh Dheeraj, Ashok Kumar, Sameer Kumar Singh, and Qaukab Kadri. [2]
The BPCC comprises several committees, including a screening committee for potential election candidates [3] and, since July 2011, a committee co-ordinate interactions between the state organisation and that at national level. [4] There is also a monitoring committee, established around December 2010 to monitor the various Central Government schemes in Bihar. [5] The former MLC Vijay Shankar Mishra is the Chairman of the recently reshuffled committee. [6]
In addition, the BPCC has constituent organisations, including: [7]
S.no | President | Portrait | Term | |
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1. | Maulana Mazharul Haque | 1921 | 1930 | |
2. | Dr. Rajendra Prasad | 1931 | 1935 | |
3. | Dr. Krishna Sinha | 1935 | 1936 | |
(2). | Dr. Rajendra Prasad | 1936 | 1946 | |
4. | Prof. Abdul Bari | 1946 | 1947 | |
5. | Mahamaya Prasad Sinha | 1947 | 1948 | |
6. | Pandit Prajapati Mishra | 1948 | 1950 | |
7. | Dr. Laxmi Narayan Sudhanshu | 1950 | 1952 | |
(6). | Pandit Prajapati Mishra | 1952 | 1953 | |
8. | Nand Kumar Singh (In-Charge) | 1953 | 1954 | |
(3). | Krishna Sinha | 1954 | 1955 | |
(8). | Nand Kumar Singh | 1955 | 1959 | |
9. | Abdul Qaiyum Ansari | 1959 | 1962 | |
10. | Rajendra Mishra | 1962 | 1968 | |
11. | Anant Prasad Sharma | 1968 | 1971 | |
12. | Viddyakar Kavi | 1971 | 1973 | |
13. | Sitaram Kesri | 1973 | 1977 | |
14. | Mungeri Lal (In-Charge) | 1977 | 1977 | |
15. | Kedar Pandey | 1977 | 1980 | |
16. | Rafique Alam | 1980 | 1983 | |
17. | Ram Sharan Prasad Singh | 1983 | 1984 | |
18. | Bindeshwari Dubey | 1984 | 1985 | |
19. | Dumar Lal Baitha | 1985 | 1988 | |
20. | Tariq Anwar | 1988 | 1989 | |
21. | Jagannath Mishra | 1989 | 1990 | |
22. | Lahtan Choudhary | 1990 | 1992 | |
(21). | Jagannath Mishra | 1992 | 1992 | |
23. | Md Hidayatullah Khan | 1993 | 1994 | |
24. | Sarfaraj Ahmad | 1994 | 1997 | |
(24). | Sarfaraj Ahmad | 1997 | 1998 | |
25. | Sadanand Singh | 1998 | 2000 | |
26. | Chandan Bagchi | 2000 | 2000 | |
27. | Shakeel Ahmad | 2000 | 2003 | |
28. | Ramjatan Sinha | 2003 | 2005 | |
(25). | Sadanand Singh | 2005 | 2008 | |
29. | Anil Kumar Sharma | 2008 | 2010 | |
30. | Mehboob Ali Kaiser | 2010 | 2013 | |
31. | Ashok Chaudhary | 1 April 2013 | 27 Sep. 2017 | |
32. | Kaukab Quadri (In-Charge) | 27 Sep. 2017 | 17 Sep. 2018 | |
33. | Madan Mohan Jha | 17 Sep. 2018 | 5 Dec. 2022 | |
34. | Akhilesh Prasad Singh | 5 Dec. 2022 | Incumbent | |
Year | Legislature | Leader | Seats Contested | Seats won | Change in seats | Votes | Percentage of votes | Vote swing | Outcome |
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1952 | 1st Assembly | Shri Krishna Sinha | 322 | 239 / 330 | New | 39,51,145 | 41.38% | New | Government |
1957 | 2nd Assembly | 312 | 210 / 318 | 29 | 44,55,425 | 42.09% | 0.71% | Government | |
1962 | 3rd Assembly | Binodanand Jha | 318 | 185 / 318 | 25 | 40,75,844 | 41.35% | 0.74% | Government |
1967 | 4th Assembly | K. B. Sahay | 318 | 128 / 318 | 57 | 44,79,460 | 33.09% | 8.26% | Opposition |
1969 | 5th Assembly | Harihar Singh | 318 | 118 / 318 | 10 | 45,70,413 | 30.46% | 2.63% | Government |
1972 | 6th Assembly | Kedar Pandey | 259 | 167 / 318 | 49 | 56,88,002 | 33.12% | 2.66% | Government |
1977 | 7th Assembly | Jagannath Mishra | 286 | 57 / 324 | 110 | 41,01,522 | 23.58% | 9.54% | Opposition |
1980 | 8th Assembly | 311 | 169 / 324 | 112 | 76,90,225 | 34.2% | 10.62% | Government | |
1985 | 9th Assembly | Bindeshwari Dubey | 323 | 196 / 324 | 27 | 95,58,562 | 39.3% | 5.1% | Government |
1990 | 10th Assembly | Jagannath Mishra | 323 | 71 / 324 | 125 | 79,46,635 | 24.78% | 14.52% | Opposition |
1995 | 11th Assembly | 320 | 29 / 324 | 42 | 56,22,952 | 16.27% | 8.51% | Opposition | |
2000 | 12th Assembly | Shakeel Ahmad | 324 | 23 / 324 | 6 | 40,96,467 | 11.06% | 5.21% | Opposition |
2005 | 13th Assembly | Ramjatan Sinha | 84 | 10 / 243 | 13 | 14,35,449 | 5.00% | 6.06% | Opposition |
2005 | 14th Assembly | Sadanand Singh | 51 | 9 / 243 | 1 | 12,28,835 | 6.09% | 1.09% | Opposition |
2010 | 15th Assembly | Mehboob Ali Kaiser | 243 | 4 / 243 | 5 | 24,31,477 | 8.37% | 3.37% | Opposition |
2015 | 16th Assembly | Ashok Choudhary | 41 | 27 / 243 | 23 | 25,39,638 | 6.66% | 1.71% | Opposition |
2020 | 17th Assembly | Madan Mohan Jha | 70 | 19 / 243 | 8 | 39,95,319 | 9.48% | 2.82% | Opposition |
Name | Took office | Left office |
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Sri Krishna Sinha | 2 April 1946 | 31 January 1961 |
Deep Narayan Singh | 1 February 1961 | 18 February 1961 |
Binodanand Jha [8] | 18 February 1961 | 2 October 1963 |
Krishana Vallabh Sahay | 2 October 1963 | 5 March 1967 |
Satish Prasad Singh | 28 January 1968 | 1 February 1968 |
B. P. Mandal [9] | 1 February 1968 | 2 March 1968 |
Bhola Paswan Shashtri (1st Term) | 22 March 1968 | 29 June 1968 |
Harihar Singh [10] | 26 February 1969 | 22 June 1969 |
Bhola Paswan Shashtri (2nd Term) | 22 June 1969 | 4 July 1969 |
Daroga Prasad Rai [11] | 16 February. 1970 | 22 December 1970 |
Bhola Paswan Shashtri (3rd Term) | 2 June 1971 | 9 January 1972 |
Kedar Pandey | 19 March 1972 | 2 July 1973 |
Abdul Gafoor | 2 July 1973 | 11 April 1975 |
Dr.Jagannath Mishra (1st Term) | 11 April 1975 | 30 April 1977 |
Dr.Jagannath Mishra (2nd Term) | 8 June 1980 | 14 August 1983 |
Chandrashekhar Singh | 14 August 1983 | 12 March 1985 |
Bindeshwari Dubey | 12 March 1985 | 13 February 1988 |
Bhagwat Jha Azad [12] | 14 February 1988 | 10 March 1989 |
Satyendra Narayan Sinha | 11 March 1989 | 6 December 1989 |
Dr.Jagannath Mishra [13] (3rd Term) | 6 December 1989 | 10 March 1990 |
# | Name | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha | 2 April 1946 | 5 July 1957 |
Year | General election | Votes polled | Seats won |
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1951 | 1st Assembly | 3,951,145 | 239 |
1951 | 1st Lok Sabha | 4,573,058 | 45 |
1957 | 2nd Assembly | 4,455,425 | 210 |
1957 | 2nd Lok Sabha | 4,450,208 | 41 |
1962 | 3rd Assembly | 4,075,844 | 185 |
1962 | 3rd Lok Sabha | 4,365,148 | 39 |
1967 | 4th Assembly | 4,479,460 | 128 |
1967 | 4th Lok Sabha | 4,749,813 | 34 |
1969 | 5th Assembly | 4,570,413 | 118 |
1971 | 5th Lok Sabha | 5,967,512 | 39 |
1972 | 6th Assembly | 5,688,002 | 167 |
1977 | 7th Assembly | 4,101,522 | 57 |
1977 | 6th Lok Sabha | 4,781,142 | 0 |
1980 | 8th Assembly | 7,690,225 | 169 |
1980 | 7th Lok Sabha | 7,377,583 | 30 |
1984 | 8th Lok Sabha | 12,970,432 | 48 |
1985 | 9th Assembly | 9,558,562 | 196 |
1989 | 9th Lok Sabha | 8,659,832 | 4 |
1990 | 10th Assembly | 7,946,635 | 71 |
1991 | 10th Lok Sabha | 7,007,304 | 1 |
1995 | 11th Assembly | 5,622,952 | 29 |
1996 | 11th Lok Sabha | 4,446,053 | 2 |
1998 | 12th Lok Sabha | 2,717,204 | 5 |
1999 | 13th Lok Sabha | 3,142,603 | 4 |
2000 | 12th Assembly | 4,096,467 | 23 |
2004 | 14th Lok Sabha | 1,315,935 | 3 |
2005 | 13th Assembly | 1,223,835 | 10 |
2005 | 14th Assembly | 1,435,449 | 9 |
2009 | 15th Lok Sabha | 2,550,785 | 2 |
2014 | 16th Lok Sabha | 826,388 | 2 |
2015 | 16th Assembly | 25,39,638 | 27 |
2019 | 17th Lok Sabha | 826,388 | 1 |
2020 | 17th Assembly | 3,995,319 | 19 |
2024 | 18th Lok Sabha | 3,983,882 | 4 |
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