Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee

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{{Infobox Indian Political Party

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| party_name = Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee

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| president= Rajesh Kumar{{cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/congress-bihar-rajesh-kumar-replace-akhilesh-prasad-singh-state-unit-president-election-2695440-2025-03-18|title=Mla Rajesh Kumar Appointed Bihar Congress President|work= India Today|date=18 March 2025|accessdate=18 March 2025}}

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|headquarters = Sadaqat Ashram, Patna-800010, Bihar

| alliance = MGB

| ideology = {{ubl|Populism|Social liberalism|Democratic socialism|Social democracy|Secularism}}

|youth = Bihar Youth Congress

|women = Bihar Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee

| loksabha_seats = {{Composition bar|4|40|hex=#00BFFF}}

| rajyasabha_seats = {{Composition bar|1|16|hex=#00BFFF}}

| state_seats_name = Bihar Legislative Assembly

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| state2_seats_name = Bihar Legislative Council

| state2_seats= {{Composition bar|4|75|hex=#00BFFF}}

| website =

|symbol = 150px

|eci= A State Unit of Indian National Congress

|chairman=Shakeel Ahmad Khan}}

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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.{{Cite web|title=Bihar Congress President Says Rahul Gandhi a 'Janeudhari Sanatani Hindu'|url=https://www.news18.com/news/politics/bihar-congress-president-says-rahul-gandhi-a-janeudhari-sanatani-hindu-1591141.html|access-date=2021-09-25|website=News18|date=30 November 2017|language=en}}

Organisation

The BPCC comprises several committees, including a screening committee for potential election candidates{{Cite web|title=Rahul's close aide to shortlist candidates|url=http://www.thestatesman.com/mobi/news/bihar/bihar-polls-rahul-s-close-aide-to-shortlist-candidates/87222.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-25|website=The Statesman|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911072904/http://www.thestatesman.com/mobi/news/bihar/bihar-polls-rahul-s-close-aide-to-shortlist-candidates/87222.html |archive-date=11 September 2016 }} and, since July 2011, a committee co-ordinate interactions between the state organisation and that at national level.{{cite news| url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110703/jsp/bihar/story_14189181.jsp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132117/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110703/jsp/bihar/story_14189181.jsp | url-status=dead | archive-date=4 March 2016 | location=Calcutta, India | work=The Telegraph | title=Cong appoints team to revamp Bihar unit | date=3 July 2011}} There is also a monitoring committee, established around December 2010 to monitor the various Central Government schemes in Bihar.{{cite news| url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-09/patna/29638176_1_congress-panel-central-schemes-congress-working-committee | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707171159/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-06-09/patna/29638176_1_congress-panel-central-schemes-congress-working-committee | url-status=dead | archive-date=7 July 2012 | work=The Times of India | title=Congress panel to monitor central schemes | date=9 June 2011}} The former MLC Vijay Shankar Mishra is the Chairman of the recently reshuffled committee.{{cite news| url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-01-10/patna/28361244_1_bpcc-bihar-pradesh-congress-committee-panchayat | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405212458/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-01-10/patna/28361244_1_bpcc-bihar-pradesh-congress-committee-panchayat | url-status=dead | archive-date=5 April 2012 | work=The Times of India | title=Congress makes moves to face 2014 LS polls | date=10 January 2011}}

In addition, the BPCC has constituent organisations, including:{{cite web |url=http://www.aicc.org.in/biharpcc/frontal.php |title=BIHAR PRADESH CONGRESS COMMITTEE FRONTAL ORGANIZATIONS |publisher=Indian National Congress |access-date=2009-09-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090921000458/http://www.aicc.org.in/biharpcc/frontal.php |archive-date=21 September 2009 }}

List of Presidents

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"

! Style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" | S.no

! Style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" | President

! Style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" | Portrait

! Style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" colspan=2 | Term

1.

| Maulana Mazharul Haque

|100px

| 1921

| 1930

2.

| Rajendra Prasad

|100px

| 1931

| 1935

3.

| Shri Krishna Sinha

|100px

| 1935

| 1936

(2).

| Rajendra Prasad

|100px

| 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

|100px

| 1954

| 1955

(8).

| Nand Kumar Singh

|

| 1955

| 1959

9.

| Abdul Qaiyum Ansari

|100px

| 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

|100px

| 1977

| 1980

16.

| Rafique Alam

|

| 1980

| 1983

17.

| Ram Sharan Prasad Singh

|

| 1983

| 1984

18.

| Bindeshwari Dubey

|100px

| 1984

| 1985

19.

|Dumar Lal Baitha

|100px

| 1985

| 1988

20.

| Tariq Anwar

|100px

| 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

|100px

| 1998

| 2000

26.

| Chandan Bagchi

|

| 2000

| 2000

27.

| Shakeel Ahmad

|100px

| 2000

| 2003

28.

| Ramjatan Sinha

|

| 2003

| 2005

(25).

| Sadanand Singh

|100px

| 2005

| 2008

29.

| Anil Kumar Sharma

|

| 2008

| 2010

30.

| Mehboob Ali Kaiser

|100px

| 2010

| 2013

31.

| Ashok Chaudhary

|100px

| 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

|100px

| 5 Dec. 2022

| 18 March 2025

35.

|Rajesh Kumar

|100px

|18 March 2025

|Incumbent

List of chief ministers of Bihar from the Congress Party

{{main|List of chief ministers of Bihar}}

class="wikitable"

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"|No.

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Name

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Took office

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Left office

!! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"|Tenure

1.

| Sri Krishna Sinha

| 2 April 1946

| 31 January 1961

!{{Ayd|2 April 1946| 31 January 1961}}

2.

| Deep Narayan Singh

| 1 February 1961

| 18 February 1961

!{{Ayd|1 February 1961| 18 February 1961}}

3.

| Binodanand Jha{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelallantop.com/kisse/mukhyamantri-political-kisse-story-of-binodanand-jha-the-third-cm-of-bihar-who-was-embroiled-in-the-famous-machchli-kand/|title= बिहार का वो मुख्यमंत्री जो कहता था, 'मुझे मारने के लिए मछली भेजी गई है'|website= The Lallantop|language=hi |access-date=2020-11-06}}

| 18 February 1961

| 2 October 1963

!{{Ayd|18 February 1961| 2 October 1963}}

4.

| Krishana Vallabh Sahay

| 2 October 1963

| 5 March 1967

!{{Ayd|2 October 1963| 5 March 1967}}

5.

| Satish Prasad Singh

| 28 January 1968

| 1 February 1968

!{{Ayd|28 January 1968| 1 February 1968}}

6.

| B. P. Mandal{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelallantop.com/kisse/mukhyamantri-complete-story-of-bindeshwari-prasad-mandal-who-become-chief-minister-of-bihar-for-51-days/|title= मुख्यमंत्री: मंडल कमीशन वाले बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री बीपी मंडल की पूरी कहानी|website= The Lallantop|language=hi |access-date=2020-11-09}}

| 1 February 1968

| 2 March 1968

!{{Ayd|1 February 1968| 2 March 1968}}

rowspan=3|7.

| rowspan=3|Bhola Paswan Shashtri

| 22 March 1968

| 29 June 1968

! rowspan=3|332 days

22 June 1969

| 4 July 1969

2 June 1971

| 9 January 1972

8.

| Harihar Singh{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelallantop.com/videos/in-this-episode-of-mukhyamantri-saurabh-dwivedi-talks-about-former-minister-of-bihar-sardar-harihar-singh/|title= हरिहर सिंह: महात्मा गांधी का 'सरदार,' जो कभी मंत्री नहीं बना, सीधा मुख्यमंत्री बना|website= The Lallantop|language=hi |access-date=2020-10-28}}

| 26 February 1969

| 22 June 1969

!{{Ayd|26 February 1969| 22 June 1969}}

9.

| Daroga Prasad Rai{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelallantop.com/videos/in-this-episode-of-mukhyamantri-saurabh-dwivedi-talks-about-former-chief-minister-of-bihar-daroga-prasad-rai/|title= दरोगा प्रसाद राय: बस कंडक्टर के चक्कर में कुर्सी गंवाने वाला मुख्यमंत्री|website= The Lallantop|language=hi |access-date=2020-10-29}}

| 16 February 1970

| 22 December 1970

!{{Ayd|16 February 1970| 22 December 1970}}

10.

| Kedar Pandey

| 19 March 1972

| 2 July 1973

!{{Ayd|19 March 1972| 2 July 1973}}

11.

| Abdul Gafoor

| 2 July 1973

| 11 April 1975

!{{Ayd|2 July 1973| 11 April 1975}}

rowspan=3|12.

| rowspan=3|Jagannath Mishra

| 11 April 1975

| 30 April 1977

! rowspan=3|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

!{{Ayd|14 August 1983| 12 March 1985}}

14.

| Bindeshwari Dubey

| 12 March 1985

| 13 February 1988

!{{Ayd|12 March 1985| 13 February 1988}}

15.

| Bhagwat Jha Azad{{Cite web|url=https://www.thelallantop.com/videos/bhagwat-jha-azad-was-a-veteran-parliamentarian-6-time-lok-sabha-mp-and-18th-chief-minister-of-bihar/|title= भागवत झा आजाद: बिहार के 18वें मुख्यमंत्री जिनकी कुर्सी एक अपहरण कांड में चली गई|website= The Lallantop|language=hi |access-date=2020-11-06}}

| 14 February 1988

| 10 March 1989

!{{Ayd|14 February 1988| 10 March 1989}}

16.

| Satyendra Narayan Sinha

| 11 March 1989

| 6 December 1989

!{{Ayd|11 March 1989| 6 December 1989}}

List of deputy chief ministers of Bihar from the Congress Party

{{main|List of deputy chief ministers of Bihar}}

class="wikitable"

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"|No.

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Name

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Took office

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Left office

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"|Tenure

1.

|Anugrah Narayan Sinha

| 2 April 1946

| 5 July 1957

!{{Ayd|2 April 1946| 5 July 1957}}

2.

|Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav

|3 June 1971

|9 January 1972

!{{Ayd|3 June 1971|9 January 1972}}

List of union ministers from BPCC

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"|Name

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"|Ministry

! colspan=2 style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"|Term

Lalit Narayan Mishra

|Minister of Railways

|1973

|1975

rowspan=3|Jagjivan Ram

|Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation

|1967

|1970

Minister of Defence

|1970

|1974

Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation

|1974

|1977

rowspan=5|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

rowspan=2|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

Electoral Performance

{{main|Electoral history of the Indian National Congress}}

= Bihar Legislative Assembly election =

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Year

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Legislature

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Leader

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Seats Contested

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Seats won

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Change in seats

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Votes

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Percentage of votes

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Vote swing

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Outcome

style="text-align:center;"
1952

|1st Assembly

| rowspan="2" |Shri Krishna Sinha

|322

|{{Composition bar|239|330|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|New

|39,51,145

| 41.38%

|New

|{{yes2|Government}}

1957

|2nd Assembly

|312

|{{Composition bar|210|318|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Decrease}} 29

|44,55,425

| 42.09%

| {{increase}} 0.71%

|{{yes2|Government}}

1962

|3rd Assembly

| rowspan="1" |Binodanand Jha

|318

|{{Composition bar|185|318|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Decrease}} 25

|40,75,844

| 41.35%

| {{decrease}} 0.74%

|{{yes2|Government}}

1967

|4th Assembly

| rowspan="1" |K. B. Sahay

|318

|{{Composition bar|128|318|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Decrease}} 57

|44,79,460

| 33.09%

| {{decrease}} 8.26%

|{{No2|Opposition}}

1969

|5th Assembly

| rowspan="1" |Harihar Singh

|318

|{{Composition bar|118|318|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Decrease}} 10

|45,70,413

| 30.46%

| {{decrease}} 2.63%

|{{yes2|Government}}

1972

|6th Assembly

| rowspan="1" |Kedar Pandey

|259

|{{Composition bar|167|318|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{increase}} 49

|56,88,002

| 33.12%

| {{increase}} 2.66%

|{{yes2|Government}}

1977

|7th Assembly

| rowspan="2" |Jagannath Mishra

|286

|{{Composition bar|57|324|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Decrease}}110

|41,01,522

| 23.58%

| {{decrease}} 9.54%

|{{no2|Opposition}}

1980

|8th Assembly

|311

|{{Composition bar|169|324|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Increase}} 112

|76,90,225

| 34.2%

| {{increase}} 10.62%

|{{Yes2|Government}}

1985

|9th Assembly

| rowspan="1" |Bindeshwari Dubey

|323

|{{Composition bar|196|324|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Increase}} 27

|95,58,562

| 39.3%

| {{increase}} 5.1%

|{{Yes2|Government}}

1990

|10th Assembly

| rowspan="2" |Jagannath Mishra

|323

|{{Composition bar|71|324|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Decrease}} 125

|79,46,635

| 24.78%

| {{decrease}} 14.52%

|{{No2|Opposition}}

1995

|11th Assembly

|320

|{{Composition bar|29|324|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{decrease}} 42

|56,22,952

| 16.27%

| {{decrease}} 8.51%

|{{no2|Opposition}}

2000

|12th Assembly

| rowspan="1" |Shakeel Ahmad

|324

|{{Composition bar|23|324|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Decrease}} 6

|40,96,467

| 11.06%

| {{decrease}} 5.21%

|{{No2|Opposition}}

2005

|13th Assembly

| rowspan="1" |Ramjatan Sinha

|84

|{{Composition bar|10|243|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Decrease}} 13

|14,35,449

| 5.00%

| {{decrease}} 6.06%

|{{No2|Opposition}}

2005

|14th Assembly

| rowspan="1" |Sadanand Singh

|51

|{{Composition bar|9|243|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Decrease}} 1

|12,28,835

| 6.09%

| {{increase}} 1.09%

|{{No2|Opposition}}

2010

|15th Bihar Assembly

| rowspan="1" |Mehboob Ali Kaiser

|243

|{{Composition bar|4|243|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Decrease}} 5

|24,31,477

| 8.37%

| {{increase}} 3.37%

|{{No2|Opposition}}

2015

|16th Bihar Assembly

| rowspan="1" |Ashok Choudhary

|41

|{{Composition bar|27|243|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Increase}}23

|25,39,638

| 6.66%

| {{decrease}} 1.71%

|{{No2|Opposition}}

2020

|17th Bihar Assembly

| rowspan="2" |Madan Mohan Jha

|70

|{{Composition bar|19|243|{{party color|Indian National Congress}}}}

|{{Decrease}} 8

|39,95,319

| 9.48%

| {{increase}} 2.82%

|{{No2|Opposition}}

=Lok Sabha elections=

class="wikitable"

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Year

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| General election

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Votes polled

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Seats won

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white"| Change

1951

| 1st Lok Sabha

| 4,573,058

| 45

| New

1957

| 2nd Lok Sabha

| 4,450,208

| 41

|{{Decrease}}4

1962

| 3rd Lok Sabha

| 4,365,148

| 39

|{{Decrease}}2

1967

| 4th Lok Sabha

| 4,749,813

| 34

|{{Decrease}}5

1971

| 5th Lok Sabha

| 5,967,512

| 39

|{{Increase}}5

1977

| 6th Lok Sabha

| 4,781,142

| 0

|{{Decrease}}39

1980

| 7th Lok Sabha

| 7,377,583

| 30

|{{Increase}}30

1984

| 8th Lok Sabha

| 12,970,432

| 48

|{{Increase}}18

1989

| 9th Lok Sabha

| 8,659,832

| 4

|{{Decrease}}44

1991

| 10th Lok Sabha

| 7,007,304

| 1

|{{Decrease}}3

1996

| 11th Lok Sabha

| 4,446,053

| 2

|{{Increase}}1

1998

| 12th Lok Sabha

| 2,717,204

| 5

|{{Increase}}3

1999

| 13th Lok Sabha

| 3,142,603

| 4

|{{Decrease}}1

2004

| 14th Lok Sabha

| 1,315,935

| 3

|{{Decrease}}1

2009

| 15th Lok Sabha

| 2,550,785

| 2

|{{Decrease}}1

2014

| 16th Lok Sabha

| 30,21,065

| 2

| –

2019

| 17th Lok Sabha

| 31,40,797

| 1

|{{Decrease}}1

2024

|18th Lok Sabha

|3,983,882

|4

|{{Increase}}3

District Congress Committee

class="wikitable"

|+

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" |Sr. NO.

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" |Division

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" |District

! style="background-color:#00BFFF; color:white" |President

rowspan=8|1.

|rowspan=8|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

rowspan=5|2.

|rowspan=5|Magadh

|Gaya

|Santosh Kr Kushwaha

Nawada

|Satish Kumar

Aurangabad

|Rakesh Kr Singh

Jahanabad

|Istiyak Azam

Arwal

|Dhananjay Sharma

rowspan=6|3.

|rowspan=6|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

rowspan=3|4.

|rowspan=3|Saran

|Saran

|Bachu Prasad Biru

Siwan

|Sushil Kumar Yadav

Gopalganj

|Om Prakash Garg

rowspan=3|5.

|rowspan=3|Darbhanga

|Darbhanga

|Dyanand Paswan

Madhubani

|Subodh Mandal

Samastipur

|Abu Tameem

rowspan=3|6.

|rowspan=3|Kosi

|Saharsa

|Mukesh Jha

Madhepura

|Suryanarayan Ram

Supaul

|Suryanarayan Mehta

rowspan=4|7.

|rowspan=4|Purnea

|Purnea

|Bijender Yadav

Katihar

|Sunil Yadav

Araria

|Saad Ahmed

Kishanganj

|Imam Ali

rowspan=2|8.

|rowspan=2|Bhagalpur

|Bhagalpur

|Pravej Jamal

Banka

|Kanchana Singh

rowspan=6|9.

|rowspan=6|Munger

|Munger

|Ashok Paswan

Jamui

|Anil Kr Singh

Khagaria

|Avinash Kumar Avinash

Lakhisarai

|Amresh Kr Anees

Begusarai

|Abhay Kr Sarjant

Sheikhpura

|Prabhat Kr Chandrawanshi

References

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