‘CWC meeting in Patna to give a big boost to INDIA bloc in Bihar’: DK Shivakumar

PATNA: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Wednesday said that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting in Patna will give a big boost to the Opposition INDIA bloc in Bihar, which goes to the Assembly poll later this year.

“It is a good thing that the CWC meeting is taking place in Bihar. It will give a big boost to the INDIA alliance. We will discuss several issues,” Shivakumar told reporters as he arrived in Patna to attend the highest executive committee of the Congress.

#WATCH | Patna, Bihar | Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting | Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar says, “It is a good thing that the CWC meeting is taking place in Bihar. It will give a big boost to the INDIA alliance. We will discuss several issues.”

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Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Wednesday asserted that Bihar needs change, suggesting a change in the government post the upcoming Assembly elections in the state. “The CWC meeting is happening after years in Bihar. Rahul Gandhi and others have worked diligently to bring about change. Bihar needs change. It is very clear”, Khurshid told reporters.

Congress leader M Veerappa Moily stated that anti-incumbency against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the ‘double-engine’ government was “riding high,” and people would go against them in the upcoming Assembly polls.

#WATCH | Patna, Bihar | Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting | Congress leader Dr M. Veerappa Moily says, “We will be fighting against the BJP and their combinations… In the last 15-20 years, the same Chief Minister and the same combination have been there in the state. The… pic.twitter.com/tqsgGT6diB

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“We will be fighting against the BJP and their combinations: the last 20 years, the same Chief Minister, the same combination. People understand poverty in the country. They understand their suffering. This will go against them, and anti-incumbency is riding high against Nitish Kumar and his government,” Moily said.

“Rahul Gandhi made two important remarks in the past months: caste census and vote theft. The atomic bomb has been detonated. Now we are waiting for the hydrogen bomb,” Baghel said. After arriving in Patna, Congress leader and NSUI in-charge Kanhaiya Kumar took a dig at the double-engine government in Bihar, asserting that fighting against “vote theft” means saving democracy.

The timing and location of the meeting are considered crucial, as the Bihar Assembly elections are expected to take place by the end of 2025. (ANI)