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Patna : Congress MLA from Bhagalpur Assembly Constituency (AC) Ajeet Sharma, 66, was on November 13, 2020, declared as the leader of its Congress legislature party (CLP) in Bihar while Rajesh Kumar Ram, who represents Kutumba AC in Aurangabad District has been made the Chief Whip in the assembly.
The announcement was made jointly by Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Avinash Pande, senior leader and chairman of the party’s screening committee for the recently concluded assembly elections, at the BPCC headquarters Sadaqat Ashram, here.
The meeting to nominate the office bearers began before noon and continued till late in the evening with party workers owing allegiance to different factions often indulging in fisticuffs and raisingd slogans against each other.
Kasba MLA Afaque Alam has been made the deputy leader of the CLP while Anand Shankar Singh, who represents Aurangabad AC, has been made the treasurer, according to a BPCC release. Khagaria MLA Chhatrapati Yadav and Rajapakar ( Vaishali) MLA Pratima Kumari Das have been appointed deputy chief whips.