“Election was like an obstacle race”: CPI(M-L) leader Dipankar Bhattacharya

As Bihar prepares for the counting of votes in the 2025 assembly elections, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation CPI(M-L) leader Dipankar Bhattacharya has raised concerns about the electoral process.

Bhattacharya compared the election to an “obstacle race,” and expressed concerns about the vote-counting process, calling it “another obstacle”. Bhattacharya announced that “all our organisations” have taken steps to ensure vigilance during the counting process. The party is urging the Election Commission to ensure a clean and fair counting process.

CPI(M-L) leader Bhattacharya, while addressing a press conference, said, “This time’s election was like an obstacle race… This time we saw that all those people who managed to save their names in the voter list came to vote… Ano