What began as a routine arrival turned into a full-blown chaos at the Patna airport on Wednesday evening, as Bihar Congress workers clashed among themselves amid allegations of ticket-selling and favouritism.

The chaos unfolding barely days before the nomination deadline on October 17 has exposed cracks within the party’s state unit.

Bihar Congress president Rajesh Ram, state in-charge Krishna Allavaru and senior leader Shakeel Ahmed Khan, who had gone to Delhi, returned to workers’ fury. Party activists accused the leadership of betraying the grassroots workers. Within minutes, the situation descended into chaos, as scuffles broke out right outside the terminal.

Witnesses said the flashpoint came when a group of workers from the Bikram constituency accused the leadership of “selling ti

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