The successors of Karpuri Thakur were weak as in a short period of time a number of Chief Minister came but none of them was able to complete the tenure of 5 years. Until then only Sri Krishna Sinha had remained successful in holding Premiership for a period of more than 5 years. Further caste and communal strife reached a new height during this period. The leaders like Satyendra Narayan Singh, Bindeshwari Dubey and Jagannath Mishra all had their own shortcomings. In the tenure of Satyendra Narayan Singh the infamous Bhagalpur riots took place in which over 900 Muslims were killed while during the tenure of Bindeshwari Dubey, Maoists slaughtered an entire village of Rajputs in which 42 people were killed while others fled.