Mahagathbandhan will win Bihar assembly polls, shape country's politics: CPI's D Raja
Vijayawada (PTI): CPI national general secretary D Raja on Tuesday expressed confidence that the Mahagathbandhan alliance will win the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, saying the outcome would have a significant impact on the country's political course.
Asserting that the people of Bihar are firmly backing the Mahagathbandhan alliance, Raja said BJP and JD (U) are getting "rattled" everywhere, including the Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself.
“Mahaghatbhandan is going to win the (Bihar) elections and it will have a big impact on the national political situation. It will influence the political course of the country,” Raja told PTI Videos.
Mahaghatbhandan comprises parties such as RJD, Congress, CPI, CPM, CPI (ML) and others.
Noting that CPI's slogan ‘Badlo Sarkar, Bachao Bihar’ (change the government, save Bihar) has struck a chord with the voters, he said people are rallying behind the Mahagathbandhan, which has been campaigning against alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the issue of alleged ‘vote chori’ (vote theft).
According to the CPI leader, BJP and JD (U) leaders are making false promises and tall claims, which shows that they are "rattled".
On choosing a chief ministerial candidate, Raja said it is not an issue at all for the Mahagathbandhan.
He said the alliance is mature enough and that RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav, a former deputy chief minister of Bihar, is one of the tallest leaders of the Mahagathbandhan.
The CM candidate will be chosen without any delay and any difficulty, the veteran leader said.
Raja added that the Bihar elections will set the tone for upcoming polls in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, leading upto the Lok Sabha elections in 2029.
In the LS polls, BJP and its allies must be defeated and that is our party’s position in order to save the constitution, save democracy, save the idea of social justice and federalism, he said.
He stressed the need to defeat the BJP-RSS combine and remove it from the seat of power.
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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.
