The new All India Congress Committee Bihar in-charge’s first meeting with the state unit degenerated into an ugly fight on Tuesday over last year’s Assembly elections in which the party had fared poorly.
As leaders brawled at Sadaquat Ashram, the state party headquarters in Patna, in the presence of AICC Bihar in-charge Bhakta Charan Das, someone pushed Congress farmers’ cell leader Raj Kumar Sharma alias Raju Singh off the 4ft-high dais. A few people kicked him while some others rushed to his rescue.
The Congressmen pushed, shoved and attacked each other. A few hurled chairs towards the dais and expletives filled the air. Leaders appealed to the people to stay calm, but it fell on deaf ears.