‘No reason why INDIA can’t win the next Bihar assembly elections, even if advanced…Our vote share has shot up’

Subodh Ghildiyal
Jun 23, 2024, 21:44 IST IST

Days after LS results, parties in Bihar are already preparing for 2025 assembly polls. State party CPI-ML has returned to Parliament after 35 years with two MPs in the 18th Lok Sabha. In a stunning comeback in 2020 Bihar polls, the radical Left party won 12 seats.

Party general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, credited with CPI-ML’s electoral revival, tells about lost opportunity in Siwan and Saran, where Lalu’s daughter Rohini Acharya narrowly lost by 13.6k votes, and sharp spike in INDIA’s EBC vote shares.
Q: SP-led opposition did very well in UP, but RJD’s score in Bihar was underwhelming.