PATNA, Oct. 24 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will visit Patna on October 25 to attend the 139th birth anniversary celebrations of Bihar's first chief minister and freedom fighter Sri Krishna Singh. Several senior party leaders are also expected to join the programme. This was announced at a press conference here on Thursday by Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) president Rajesh Ram and Rajya Sabha member Akhilesh Prasad Singh. Singh has been organising the annual event to mark the birth anniversary of the first Bihar CM, popularly known as Sri Babu, in a grand manner for years. Rajesh Ram said Sri Babu laid the foundation of modern Bihar through the abolition of the zamindari system, the pursuit of social justice and early industrialisation. "He gave the state a progressive direction when it needed it most," the state president remarked....