Following a significant defeat in the Bihar Assembly elections, the Congress party’s top leadership, including President Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, convened a high-level meeting for introspection. The discussion, also attended by General Secretary K.C. Venugopal and Treasurer Ajay Maken, focused on the party’s dismal performance, winning just six seats, and whether to analyze internal shortcomings or attribute the loss to external factors. A key expectation from the meeting was the potential formation of a special body to analyze the loss, as one reporter noted, ‘it is expected that Congress is likely to form a committee to look into the factors or reasons that actually led to the crushing defeat of Congress party in Bihar’. The meeting addresses the party’s weakened position within the opposition’s India bloc and its struggle to find a foothold in a state it once governed.