Outgoing Bihar Assembly met for 146 sessions: Who asked the most questions, how many bills were passed?

With the Bihar Assembly elections right around the corner, it’s time to look back at how the House has fared in the last five years. According to a report by the Society for Democratic Reforms, the Bihar Assembly sat for an average of 29 days a year between November 2020 and July 2025. There were 146 sittings over a period of 265 days in these five years. During this period, a total of 146 sessions were held, with the longest sessions being the 2nd and the 5th, which each had 22 sessions. Sessions and Sessions of 17th Bihar Assembly. The sessions lasted a total of 265 days. Who asked the most questions? Arun Shankar Prasad, the BJP MP from Khajauli constituency, asked the most questions, 275, in the 17th Bihar Assembly. After him is Congress’s Manohar Singh Prasad, who is the legislator from the scheduled tribe-reserved seat of Manihari. Prasad asked 231 questions. The next two MLAs on the list, Mukesh Kumar Yadav, Bajpatti MLA of the RJD (230) and Ajay Kumar, Bibhutipur MLA of the CPI(M), asked 231 and 230 questions respectively. MLAs who asked most questions in 17th Bihar Assembly. In an analysis of the party-wise average number of questions asked, it was revealed that the AIMIM, which has only one MLA in Bihar, is the leader with 168 questions. On the other hand, the BJP’s average questions asked by its 82 MPs comes to 86, while the same for the Congress (17 MPs) comes to 136. Party wise average number of questions asked in 17th Bihar Assembly. The CPI(ML)L’s average questions asked by their 13 legislators was 158. Which topics dominated the questions? Among the top categories of questions asked, Rural jobs, Education and Health dominated the discourse. While 3,055 questions on rural jobs were asked by the Bihar legislators, 2,795 questions were on education, with 2,248 questions related to health. Top 10 category wise questions asked in 17th Bihar Assembly. Bills tabled and passed 99 bills were tabled in the 17th Bihar Assembly, and all were passed on the same day they were introduced. The 2nd session of the Bihar Assembly was the busiest, with 14 bills passed during the same. How many MPs have switched parties? 17 MLAs switched parties during the 17th Bihar Assembly, with seven of them switching to the BJP from different opposition parties. During this period, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar himself dissolved his government twice. First, in August 2022, he quit the NDA, after contesting the 2020 Assembly elections in alliance with the BJP-led faction, and joined the Mahagathbandhan. In January 2024, he switched sides again, rejoined the NDA and resigned from the CM’s post. On the same day, he was again sworn in as the CM, now for the ninth time in 24 years.