Bihar under NDA a failed State, Cong. says releasing ‘charge sheet’ against govt.

The Congress on Thursday (October 9, 2025) released a 42-page ‘charge sheet’ against the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar with a leader calling Bihar under the NDA a “failed State”.

Party leaders Ashok Gehlot, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Bhupesh Baghel, who reached Patna to meet Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav for seat-sharing talks, and Jairam Ramesh released the document titled ‘Beesh Saal Vinash Kal’ (Twenty Years of Destruction).

Mr. Gehlot said the upcoming election will decide not only the fate of Bihar but that of the country. Taking a dig at the Chief Minister, he said, “Nitish Kumar keeps changing sides and the Bihar government has not been successful in providing good governance.”

He referred to Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary’s alleged ‘fake’ degree and said, “This is the first time I have witnessed that allegations are being made openly against the Deputy Chief Minister and supported by facts. Samrat Choudhary should respond to the allegations levelled against him.”

Mr. Gehlot slammed the government for the law-and-order situation in the State. Without mentioning the murder of businessman Gopal Khemka in July, he asked that if “industrialists are being killed in Bihar, what will happen to the rest of the poor people?”

The former Rajasthan Chief Minister said 3 crore people have migrated from Bihar and are engaged in construction work across the country. “Paper leaks and fake degree rackets are bringing a bad name to Bihar across the country,“ he said.

Mr. Baghel, the former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, said Mr. Kumar’s government shut industries and left people jobless. “People are unable to find jobs and there is no employment. The situation today is critical. The public is witnessing the increasing hooliganism in Bihar and by giving ₹10,000 to women, the government is simply trying to mislead them,” he said. He claimed that Mr. Kumar was unwell and said that the Bihar government was “not a double engine but a trouble engine government”.

Mr. Chowdhury said Bihar is known as a “failed State” today and it “lacks people who can run the government effectively”.

Citing a CAG report from July 2025, Mr. Ramesh said that “a scam of ₹71,000 crore has taken place in 10 departments of Bihar”.

When asked about seat-sharing, he said that talks were on and the details would be out soon.

Ahead of seat-sharing arrangements within the INDIA bloc for the election, Mr. Gehlot, Mr. Chowdhury and Mr. Baghel – the All India Congress Committee senior observers for the election – reached Patna on Thursday for talks. However, till the filing of this report, they were yet to meet any of the RJD leaders.

The RJD has called its state committee and parliamentary board meeting on Friday to discuss the seat distribution.

On Wednesday, the Congress party’s Central Election Committee is learnt to have cleared the names of 25 candidates for seats that are traditional Congress strongholds. The Congress is expected to contest around 55 to 60 seats out of the 243 as part of the Opposition alliance.