Archive · 15 Nov 2025
Congress Leaders Meet to Discuss Bihar Election Defeat
Imagine a big team playing a game and losing badly.
The captain and other important players of the losing team got together to talk about why they did so poorly.
They looked at the numbers and saw they only won a few points when they played in a specific area called Bihar.
One of the main players said the game wasn't played fairly.
They also mentioned that they will look into what happened more closely with their whole group.
This meeting happened after the official scores from the game were announced.
Senior Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge met to discuss the party's poor performance in the Bihar assembly elections.
The Congress party won only six out of the 61 seats it contested in Bihar.
This marks the party's second-worst performance in Bihar, following their 2010 result where they won four seats.
Rahul Gandhi stated that the Bihar election results were surprising and claimed the election process was unfair from the beginning.
Congress and the INDIA bloc plan to conduct a thorough review of the election results.
- Who
- Senior Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge
- What
- Met to discuss the Congress party's poor performance in the Bihar assembly elections.
- When
- Saturday, following the election results.
- Where
- New Delhi
- Why
- To assess the party's dismal showing in Bihar, where they won only six out of 61 contested seats.
- Meeting Attendees
- Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, K C Venugopal, Ajay Maken, Krishna Allavaru
- Purpose of Meeting
- Discuss Congress's poor performance in Bihar Assembly elections
- Congress Performance in Bihar
- Won 6 out of 61 contested seats
- Historical Context
- Second-worst performance in Bihar after 2010 (when 4 seats were won)
- Rahul Gandhi's Statement
- Called Bihar election results surprising and claimed the election was unfair from the beginning
- Future Action
- Congress and INDIA bloc to conduct an in-depth review of the results
Sources
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