The Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, held in Patna for the first time in over three decades, set an aggressive and ambitious tone. The intent was clear — to take on the BJP-JDU combine in Bihar and to energise the Congress cadre ahead of the electoral battle. Yet, even as the mood projected confidence, the Congress finds itself wrestling with a serious dilemma: how to strike a balance between enthusing its own workers and maintaining harmony with its key ally, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).

This contradiction became evident during the fag end of Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra. Sources indicate that flag displays at the final leg were noticeably fewer. The underlying reason, they suggest, was Rahul Gandhi’s decision to sidestep questions about projecting Tejashwi Yadav as the

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