Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee

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.

Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee
President	Rajesh Kumar[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	Populism Social liberalism Democratic socialism Social democracy Secularism
ECI Status	A State Unit of Indian National Congress
Alliance	MGB
Seats in Lok Sabha	4 / 40
Seats in Rajya Sabha	1 / 16
Seats in Bihar Legislative Assembly	19 / 243
Seats in Bihar Legislative Council	4 / 75
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The current working presidents are Shyam Sunder Singh Dheeraj, Ashok Kumar, Sameer Kumar Singh, and Qaukab Kadri.^[2]

Organisation

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]

• Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee Minority Department is the Bihar Chapter of Congress Minority Wing And Minnat Rahmani is State Chairman since 2014.
• Bihar Pradesh Congress Seva Dal is the Bihar chapter of the Congress
• Bihar Youth Congress is the Bihar chapter of the Indian Youth Congress
• NSUI Bihar is the Bihar chapter of the National Students Union of India
• INTUC Bihar is the Bihar chapter of the Indian National Trade Union Congress

List of Presidents

S.no	President	Portrait	Term
1.	Maulana Mazharul Haque		1921	1930
2.	Rajendra Prasad		1931	1935
3.	Shri Krishna Sinha		1935	1936
(2).	Rajendra Prasad		1936	1946
4.	Abdul Bari		1946	1947
5.	Mahamaya Prasad Sinha		1947	1948
6.	Pandit Prajapati Mishra		1948	1950
7.	Laxmi Narayan Sudhanshu		1950	1952
(6).	Pandit Prajapati Mishra		1952	1953
8.	Nand Kumar Singh (In-Charge)		1953	1954
(3).	Shri 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	18 March 2025
35.	Rajesh Kumar		18 March 2025	Incumbent

List of chief ministers of Bihar from the Congress Party

Main article: List of chief ministers of Bihar

No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Tenure
1.	Sri Krishna Sinha	2 April 1946	31 January 1961	14 years, 304 days
2.	Deep Narayan Singh	1 February 1961	18 February 1961	17 days
3.	Binodanand Jha[8]	18 February 1961	2 October 1963	2 years, 226 days
4.	Krishana Vallabh Sahay	2 October 1963	5 March 1967	3 years, 154 days
5.	Satish Prasad Singh	28 January 1968	1 February 1968	4 days
6.	B. P. Mandal[9]	1 February 1968	2 March 1968	30 days
7.	Bhola Paswan Shashtri	22 March 1968	29 June 1968	332 days
		22 June 1969	4 July 1969
		2 June 1971	9 January 1972
8.	Harihar Singh[10]	26 February 1969	22 June 1969	116 days
9.	Daroga Prasad Rai[11]	16 February 1970	22 December 1970	309 days
10.	Kedar Pandey	19 March 1972	2 July 1973	1 year, 105 days
11.	Abdul Gafoor	2 July 1973	11 April 1975	1 year, 283 days
12.	Jagannath Mishra	11 April 1975	30 April 1977	5 years, 180 days
		8 June 1980	14 August 1983
		6 December 1989	10 March 1990
13.	Chandrashekhar Singh	14 August 1983	12 March 1985	1 year, 210 days
14.	Bindeshwari Dubey	12 March 1985	13 February 1988	2 years, 338 days
15.	Bhagwat Jha Azad[12]	14 February 1988	10 March 1989	1 year, 24 days
16.	Satyendra Narayan Sinha	11 March 1989	6 December 1989	270 days

List of deputy chief ministers of Bihar from the Congress Party

Main article: List of deputy chief ministers of Bihar

No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Tenure
1.	Anugrah Narayan Sinha	2 April 1946	5 July 1957	11 years, 94 days
2.	Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav	3 June 1971	9 January 1972	220 days

List of union ministers from BPCC

Name	Ministry	Term
Lalit Narayan Mishra	Minister of Railways	1973	1975
Jagjivan Ram	Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation	1967	1970
	Minister of Defence	1970	1974
	Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation	1974	1977
Ram Dulari Sinha	MOS in Information and Broadcasting	1980	1980
	MOS in Labour	1980	1982
	MOS in Steel and Mines	1982	1983
	MOS in Commerce and Industry	1983	1984
	MOS in Home	1984	1985
Abdul Ghafoor	Minister of Works and Housing	1984	1985
	Minister of Urban Development	1985	1986
Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav	Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers	1994	1996

• Jagannath Mishra
• Baleshwar Ram
• Bindeshwari Dubey
• Chandrashekhar Singh
• Ram Subhag Singh
• Bali Ram Bhagat
• Meira Kumar

Electoral Performance

Main article: Electoral history of the Indian National Congress

Bihar Legislative Assembly election

Year	Legislature	Leader	Seats Contested	Seats won	Change in seats	Votes	Percentage of votes	Vote swing	Outcome
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 Bihar Assembly	Mehboob Ali Kaiser	243	4 / 243	5	24,31,477	8.37%	3.37%	Opposition
2015	16th Bihar Assembly	Ashok Choudhary	41	27 / 243	23	25,39,638	6.66%	1.71%	Opposition
2020	17th Bihar Assembly	Madan Mohan Jha	70	19 / 243	8	39,95,319	9.48%	2.82%	Opposition

Lok Sabha elections

Year	General election	Votes polled	Seats won	Change
1951	1st Lok Sabha	4,573,058	45	New
1957	2nd Lok Sabha	4,450,208	41	4
1962	3rd Lok Sabha	4,365,148	39	2
1967	4th Lok Sabha	4,749,813	34	5
1971	5th Lok Sabha	5,967,512	39	5
1977	6th Lok Sabha	4,781,142	0	39
1980	7th Lok Sabha	7,377,583	30	30
1984	8th Lok Sabha	12,970,432	48	18
1989	9th Lok Sabha	8,659,832	4	44
1991	10th Lok Sabha	7,007,304	1	3
1996	11th Lok Sabha	4,446,053	2	1
1998	12th Lok Sabha	2,717,204	5	3
1999	13th Lok Sabha	3,142,603	4	1
2004	14th Lok Sabha	1,315,935	3	1
2009	15th Lok Sabha	2,550,785	2	1
2014	16th Lok Sabha	30,21,065	2	–
2019	17th Lok Sabha	31,40,797	1	1
2024	18th Lok Sabha	3,983,882	4	3

District Congress Committee

Sr. NO.	Division	District	President
1.	Patna	Patna Town	Sashi Ranjan
		Patna Rural 1	Sumeet Kr Sunny
		Patna Rural 2	Gurujeet Singh
		Nalanda	Naresh Akela
		Bhojpur	Ashok Ram
		Rohtas	Amrender Pandey
		Buxar	Manoj Kr Pandey
		Kaimur	Radhe Shyam Kushwaha
2.	Magadh	Gaya	Santosh Kr Kushwaha
		Nawada	Satish Kumar
		Aurangabad	Rakesh Kr Singh
		Jahanabad	Istiyak Azam
		Arwal	Dhananjay Sharma
3.	Tirhut	West Champaran	Parmod Singh Patel
		East Champaran	Er Sashi Bhushan Rai
		Muzaffarpur	Arvind Mukul
		Sitamarhi	Raktu Prasad
		Sheohar	Noori Begum
		Vaishali	Mahesh Pd Rai
4.	Saran	Saran	Bachu Prasad Biru
		Siwan	Sushil Kumar Yadav
		Gopalganj	Om Prakash Garg
5.	Darbhanga	Darbhanga	Dyanand Paswan
		Madhubani	Subodh Mandal
		Samastipur	Abu Tameem
6.	Kosi	Saharsa	Mukesh Jha
		Madhepura	Suryanarayan Ram
		Supaul	Suryanarayan Mehta
7.	Purnea	Purnea	Bijender Yadav
		Katihar	Sunil Yadav
		Araria	Saad Ahmed
		Kishanganj	Imam Ali
8.	Bhagalpur	Bhagalpur	Pravej Jamal
		Banka	Kanchana Singh
9.	Munger	Munger	Ashok Paswan
		Jamui	Anil Kr Singh
		Khagaria	Avinash Kumar Avinash
		Lakhisarai	Amresh Kr Anees
		Begusarai	Abhay Kr Sarjant
		Sheikhpura	Prabhat Kr Chandrawanshi