Overview
- The disciplinary panel says the leaders’ public statements diverged from the party line and damaged the party’s image and electoral performance.
- Committee chief Kapil Dev Prasad Yadav ordered replies by noon on November 21 and warned that failure or unsatisfactory responses could lead to expulsion from primary membership for up to six years.
- Those named include former ministers Veena Shahi and Afaque Alam, former MLA Sudhir Kumar, former MLC Ajay Kumar Singh, and other ex‑office‑bearers.
- The move follows a heavy defeat in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections and is presented as an effort to enforce discipline and unity.
- Some of the notified leaders had demanded the state president’s resignation and a change of the AICC Bihar in‑charge, with a sit‑in planned on November 22 in Patna and a Delhi visit on November 24.