The Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) is the political unit of the

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for the state of

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West ...

. Its head office is situated in

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at the

Sadaqat Ashram Sadaqat Ashram is located in Patna, Bihar, beside the main road of Digha area, on the banks of the River Ganges, almost seven kilometres from the airport. This was one of the residences of Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, who l ...

. The current working presidents are Shyam Sunder Singh Dheeraj,

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, Sameer Kumar Singh, and Qaukab Kadri.

Organisation

The BPCC comprises several committees, including a screening committee for potential election candidates and, since July 2011, a committee co-ordinate interactions between the state organisation and that at national level. There is also a monitoring committee, established around December 2010 to monitor the various

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schemes in Bihar. The former MLC Vijay Shankar Mishra is the Chairman of the recently reshuffled committee. In addition, the BPCC has constituent organisations, including: *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

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*NSUI Bihar is the Bihar chapter of the

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*INTUC Bihar is the Bihar chapter of the

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Bihar Legislative Assembly election

BPCC presidents

List of chief ministers of Bihar from the Congress Party

List of deputy chief ministers of Bihar from the Congress Party

List of union ministers from BPCC

Lalit Narayan Mishra Lalit Narayan Mishra (2 February 1923 – 3 January 1975) was an Indian politician who served as Minister of Railways in the government of India from 1973 to 1975. He was brought into politics by the first Chief Minister of Bihar, Krishna Sinh ...

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* B. P. Mandal *

Abdul Ghafoor (politician) Abdul Ghafoor (1918 – 10 July 2004) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician who served as the 13th Chief Minister of Bihar from 2 July 1973 to 11 April 1975; and served as cabinet minister in Rajeev Gandhi's government. He participate ...

Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav (3 March 1920 – 16 January 2006) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from the Arrah, Bihar in 1991 as a member of the Janata Dal but joined the Congress ...

Jagannath Mishra Jagannath Mishra (24 June 1937 – 19 August 2019) was an Indian politician who served as Chief Minister of Bihar and as Minister in the Union Cabinet. He was also Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha between 1988 - 1990 and 1994 - 2000. His invo ...

* Baleshwar Ram *

Bindeshwari Dubey Bindeshwari Dubey (14 January 1921 – 20 January 1993) was a freedom fighter, trade unionist and politician who served as Chief Minister of Bihar between 12 March 1985 and 13 February 1988. Dubey was involved in the nationalisation of India ...

* Chandrashekhar Singh *

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* Bali Ram Bhagat *

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Performance in state elections

References

External links

INC website
{{India topics Politics of Bihar Indian National Congress by state or union territory