Ambulances turned into 'bull-ance': Akhilesh as pregnant woman taken to hospital in bullock cart
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Hamirpur/Lucknow(PTI): Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav derided the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Monday after a video showed a pregnant woman in Hamirpur district being taken to hospital on a bullock cart through a muddy, waterlogged, unpaved road when an ambulance allegedly failed to reach her village.
He asked Uttar Pradesh's health minister to show concern for people's hardships beyond ceremonial appearances.
Sharing the video on X, Yadav accused the state government of "turning ambulances into bullock carts" and questioned its claims of development.
"Under the BJP's misrule, ambulances in Uttar Pradesh have turned into 'bull-ances'. Will a trillion-dollar economy run on bullock carts? The chief minister should look at the condition of roads and ambulances during his next field visit, or use Delhi's binoculars or drones if needed," he wrote in Hindi.
The incident occurred on Saturday in Parsadwa Dera Gau Ghat Chhani village, where the pregnant woman was taken about seven kilometres to the Sisolor Community Health Centre on a bullock cart by her 60-year-old father-in-law, Krishna Kumar Kevat, after an ambulance got stuck due to the muddy, unpaved road.
The journey through the swampy and uneven track took nearly three hours. Doctors informed the family that the delivery was still two days away and discharged her after primary treatment.
Locals said around 500 residents of the area face similar hardships every monsoon as the road turns into a muddy swamp, isolating them from nearby towns.
"In emergencies, we have no option but to carry patients on our shoulders or bullock carts," said social worker Arun Nishad, adding the villagers had staged a six-day protest in March last year, demanding a proper road.
The then sub-divisional magistrate had assured them that construction would begin after the Lok Sabha elections, but no work has started even after more than a year, he added.
Villagers claimed they have now appealed to the district administration and the local MLA to intervene and ensure the construction of a road connecting their village to the main road network.
Chief Development Officer of Parsadwa, Arun Kumar, said the panchayat had filled the path with mud before the monsoon as a precursor to laying a cement concrete road. "But it got damaged due to rain. Laying a concrete path will begin after the route dries up," he said.
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NEET student hangs self in Rajasthan's Sikar
Jaipur (PTI): A student preparing for the NEET examination allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in Rajasthan's Sikar on Friday, police said.
According to the police, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using his sister's scarf while one sister was attending coaching classes and the other was in the bathroom.
He had appeared in the NEET UG exam 2026, which was cancelled due to paper leak, they said.
Udyog Nagar SHO Rajesh Kumar said that the deceased, identified as Pradeep Meghwal, was a resident of Kanika ki Dhani village in Jhunjhunu's Gudha Gaudji area.
He had been living in a rented room in Sikar's Jaldhari Nagar area with his two sisters while preparing for NEET over the last three years.
His elder sister later found him hanging and informed the landlord and police after bringing him down, officials said.
The SHO said the body was kept at SK Hospital mortuary, and a postmortem had not been conducted.
The student's father, Rajesh Kumar Meghwal, told police that Pradeep's NEET examination had gone well and the family was expecting him to score around 650 marks.
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot expressed grief over the incident and linked it to anxiety among students after reports of irregularities and paper leaks in NEET 2026.
Pilot said repeated paper leak incidents and cancellation of examinations were affecting students' mental health and demanded a time-bound investigation and strict action against those responsible.
