Leader of the Opposition of Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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![]() Seal of Bihar Government | |
Member of | Bihar Legislative Assembly |
Seat | Raghopur |
Nominator | Members of Official Opposition |
Appointer | Speaker of Bihar assembly |
Term length | 5 years No renewable limit |
The Leader of the Opposition is the politician who leads the official opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Incumbent Leader of opposition is Tejashwi Yadav.
No | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Term of office | Assembly
(election) |
Party | |||
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1 | ![]() |
Basawon Singh | Dehri | 1952 | 1957 | 4 years, 299 days | 1st (1952 election) |
Socialist Party | |
2 | Sushil Kumar Bage | Kolebira | 20 May 1957 | 15 March 1962 | 4 years, 299 days | 2nd (1957 election) |
Jharkhand Party | ||
3 | Kamakhya Narain Singh | Barhi | 16 March 1962 | 16 March 1967 | 5 years, 0 days | 3rd (1962 election) |
Swatantra Party | ||
4 | Mahesh Prasad Singh | 17 March 1967 | 26 February 1969 | 1 year, 346 days | 4th (1967 election) |
Indian National Congress | |||
5 | Bhola Paswan Shastri | Korha | 18 March 1969 | 15 March 1970 | 362 days | 5th (1969 election) |
Lok Tantrik Congress | ||
6 | Ramanand Tiwary | Shahpur | 16 March 1970 | 15 March 1971 | 364 days | Samyukta Socialist Party | |||
7 | ![]() |
Daroga Prasad Rai | Parsa | 16 March 1971 | 28 March 1972 | 1 year, 12 days | Indian National Congress | ||
8 | ![]() |
Karpoori Thakur | Tajpur | 6th (1972 election) |
Samyukta Socialist Party | ||||
9 | Sunil Mukherjee | Patna West | Communist Party of India | ||||||
10 | ![]() |
Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav | Danapur | 7th (1977 election) |
Indian National Congress | ||||
11 | ![]() |
Jagannath Mishra | Jhanjharpur | ||||||
(7) | ![]() |
Karpoori Thakur | Samastipur | 30 June 1980 | 12 February 1988 | 7 years, 227 days | 8th (1980 election) |
Janata Party (Secular) | |
Sonbarsha | 9th (1985 election) |
Lokdal | |||||||
12 | ![]() |
Lalu Prasad Yadav | Sonpur | 18 March 1989 | 7 December 1989 | 264 days | |||
13 | Anup Lal Yadav | Triveniganj | 18 January 1990 | 19 March 1990 | 60 days | ||||
(10) | ![]() |
Jagannath Mishra | Jhanjharpur | 20 March 1990 | 14 April 1994 | 4 years, 25 days | 10th (1990 election) |
Indian National Congress | |
14 | Ramashray Prasad Singh | Konch | 29 June 1994 | 15 March 1995 | 259 days | ||||
15 | ![]() |
Yashwant Sinha | Ranchi | 17 April 1995 | 24 January 1996 | 282 days | 11th (1995 election) |
Bharatiya Janata Party | |
16 | ![]() |
Sushil Kumar Modi | Patna Central | 19 March 1996 | 1 March 2000 | 8 years, 9 days | |||
15 March 2000 | 28 March 2004 | 12th (2000 election) | |||||||
17 | ![]() |
Upendra Kushwaha | Jandaha | 29 March 2004 | 5 March 2005 | 341 days | Janata Dal (United) | ||
18 | ![]() |
Rabri Devi | Raghopur | 30 November 2005 | 24 November 2010 | 4 years, 359 days | 14th (2005 election) |
Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
19 | Abdul Bari Siddiqui | Alinagar | 6 December 2010 | 19 June 2013 | 2 years, 195 days | 15th (2010 election) | |||
19 | Nand Kishore Yadav | Patna Sahib | 19 June 2013 | 4 December 2015 | 2 years, 168 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
21 | Prem Kumar | Gaya Town | 4 December 2015 | 28 July 2017 | 1 year, 236 days | 16th (2015 election) | |||
22 | Tejashwi Yadav | Raghopur | 28 July 2017 | 9 August 2022 | 5 years, 12 days | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |||
17th (2020 election) | |||||||||
23 | ![]() |
Vijay Kumar Sinha | Lakhisarai | 24 August 2022 | 28 January 2024 | 1 year, 318 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
(22) | Tejashwi Yadav | Raghopur | 16 February 2024 | incumbent | 142 days | Rashtriya Janata Dal |