Patna: The Congress party on Saturday announced the appointment of three senior leaders — former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, and former MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury — as senior observers for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. The list was released by party general secretary KC Venugopal as part of a wider organisational restructuring in preparation for the polls.
In addition to the senior observers, the party has deployed 41 observers across all its organisational districts in Bihar. The list includes Avinash Pandey, Kameshwar Patel, Harish Chowdhury, Qazi Nizamuddin, Ajay Kumar Lallu, Bhakt Charan Das, Ajay Rai, Shubhankar Sarkar, Bunty Patel, Isha Khan Chowdhury, Tanuj Punia, Pradeep Jain Aditya, Anil Chowdhury, Abhishek Dutt, Ram Kishan Ojha, Satyanarayan Patel, Chetan Chauhan, BV Srinivas, and Vikrant Bhuria.
माननीय कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष श्री @kharge जी ने आगामी बिहार विधानसभा चुनावों के लिए निम्नलिखित नेताओं को एआईसीसी वरिष्ठ पर्यवेक्षक (Senior Observers) नियुक्त किया है।
साथ ही, बिहार विधानसभा चुनावों के लिए जिला चुनाव पर्यवेक्षकों (District Election Observers) की नियुक्ति के प्रस्ताव… pic.twitter.com/wXaPdrBOur
— Bihar Congress (@INCBihar) October 4, 2025
The Bihar Congress, in an official post on X, said, “Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed these leaders as AICC Senior Observers for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. The proposal for appointing district election observers has also been approved.”
The move is seen as part of Congress’s effort to energise its grassroots network and ensure effective coordination between the state leadership and the national command. Bihar, where the party is part of the opposition Grand Alliance, is expected to witness a fiercely contested election later this year.
Meanwhile, the party has also launched its “Twenty Years, Twenty Questions” campaign aimed at cornering the ruling NDA on governance issues. NSUI in-charge Kanhaiya Kumar, addressing a press conference at Sadakat Ashram, said, “Every day, a Congress leader will question the double-engine government on what it has done for Bihar in the past two decades. These questions will be asked on behalf of the people.”
