List of leaders of the opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly

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Leader of the Opposition Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Tejashwi Yadav (Rashtriya Janata Dal) since 28 July 2017
Nominator	Members of Official Opposition
Appointer
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.

Leaders of the opposition^[1][]

No	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Tenure length	Assembly (election)	Party[a]
1			20 May 1957	15 March 1962	4 years, 299 days	Second Assembly (1957–62) (1957 election)
2		Kamakhya Narain Singh	16 March 1962	16 March 1967	5 years, 0 days	Third Assembly (1962–67) (1962 election)
3		Mahesh Prasad Singh	17 March 1967	26 February 1969	1 year, 346 days	Fourth Assembly (1967–69) (1967 election)
4		Bhola Paswan Shastri	18 March 1969	15 March 1970	362 days	Fifth Assembly (1969–72) (1969 election)
5		Ramanand Tiwary	16 March 1970	15 March 1971	364 days
6		Daroga Prasad Rai	16 March 1971	28 March 1972	1 year, 12 days
7		Karpoori Thakur				Sixth Assembly (1972–77) (1972 election)
8		Sunil Mukherjee
9		Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav				Seventh Assembly (1977–80) (1977 election)	Indian National Congress
10		Jagannath Mishra
(7)		Karpoori Thakur	30 June 1980	12 February 1988	7 years, 227 days	Eighth Assembly (1980–85) (1980 election)	Janata Party (Secular)
						Ninth Assembly (1985–90) (1985 election)
11		Lalu Prasad Yadav	18 March 1989	7 December 1989	264 days
12		Anup Lal Yadav	18 January 1990	19 March 1990	60 days
(10)		Jagannath Mishra	20 March 1990	14 April 1994	4 years, 25 days	Tenth Assembly (1990–95) (1990 election)	Indian National Congress
13		Ramashray Prasad Singh	29 June 1994	15 March 1995	259 days
14		Yashwant Sinha	17 April 1995	24 January 1996	282 days	Eleventh Assembly (1995–2000) (1995 election)	Bharatiya Janata Party
15		Sushil Kumar Modi	19 March 1996	1 March 2000	8 years, 9 days
			15 March 2000	28 March 2004		Twelfth Assembly (2000–05) (2000 election)
16		Upendra Kushwaha	29 March 2004	5 March 2005	341 days		Janata Dal (United)
17		Rabri Devi	30 November 2005	24 November 2010	4 years, 359 days	Fourteenth Assembly (2005–10) (2005 election)	Rashtriya Janata Dal
18		Abdul Bari Siddiqui	6 December 2010	19 June 2013	2 years, 195 days	Fifteenth Assembly (2010–15) (2010 election)
19		Nand Kishore Yadav	19 June 2013	4 December 2015	2 years, 168 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
20		Prem Kumar	4 December 2015	28 July 2017	1 year, 236 days	Sixteenth Assembly (2015–20) (2015 election)
21		Tejashwi Yadav	28 July 2017	Incumbent	4 years, 239 days		Rashtriya Janata Dal
						Seventeenth Assembly (2020–25) (2020 election)

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