List of leaders of the opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly

The leader of the opposition is the politician who leads the official opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly. The incumbent leader of opposition is Tejashwi Yadav.

Leaders of the opposition NoPortraitNameConstituencyTerm of officeAssembly (election)Party1Basawon SinghDehri195219571st(1952 election)Socialist Party2Sushil Kumar BageKolebira20 May 195715 March 19622nd(1957 election)Jharkhand Party3Kamakhya Narain SinghBarhi16 March 196216 March 19673rd(1962 election)Swatantra Party4Mahesh Prasad Singh17 March 196726 February 19694th(1967 election)Indian National Congress5Bhola Paswan ShastriKorha18 March 196915 March 19705th(1969 election)Lok Tantrik Congress6Ramanand TiwaryShahpur16 March 197015 March 1971Samyukta Socialist Party7Daroga Prasad RaiParsa16 March 197128 March 1972Indian National Congress8Karpoori ThakurTajpur6th(1972 election)Samyukta Socialist Party9Sunil MukherjeePatna WestCommunist Party of India10Ram Lakhan Singh YadavDanapur7th(1977 election)Indian National Congress11 Jagannath MishraJhanjharpur(7)Karpoori ThakurSamastipur30 June 198012 February 19888th(1980 election)Janata Party (Secular)Sonbarsha9th(1985 election)Lokdal12Lalu Prasad YadavSonpur18 March 19897 December 198913Anup Lal YadavTriveniganj18 January 199019 March 1990(10) Jagannath MishraJhanjharpur20 March 199014 April 199410th(1990 election)Indian National Congress14Ramashray Prasad SinghKonch29 June 199415 March 199515Yashwant SinhaRanchi17 April 199524 January 199611th(1995 election)Bharatiya Janata Party16Sushil Kumar ModiPatna Central19 March 19961 March 200015 March 200028 March 200412th(2000 election)17Upendra KushwahaJandaha29 March 20045 March 2005Janata Dal (United)18Rabri DeviRaghopur30 November 200524 November 201014th(2005 election)Rashtriya Janata Dal19Abdul Bari SiddiquiAlinagar6 December 201019 June 201315th(2010 election)19Nand Kishore YadavPatna Sahib19 June 20134 December 2015Bharatiya Janata Party21 Prem KumarGaya Town4 December 201528 July 201716th(2015 election)22 Tejashwi YadavRaghopur28 July 20179 August 2022Rashtriya Janata Dal17th(2020 election)23 Vijay Kumar SinhaLakhisarai24 August 202228 January 2024Bharatiya Janata Party(22) Tejashwi YadavRaghopur16 February 2024incumbentRashtriya Janata Dal18th(2025 election)Rashtriya Janata Dal Statistics

See also List of leaders of the opposition in the Bihar Legislative Council

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