LUCKNOW, Nov. 12 -- Claiming that the INDIA bloc will win the Bihar assembly elections, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday alleged that the exit polls were a ploy by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to demoralise opposition parties.

Addressing a press conference after the state executive meeting at the SP headquarters in Lucknow, Akhilesh said, "It is true, and we must accept that the BJP is manipulating everything as part of its strategy. Survey agencies do not reveal their actual sample size. These agencies did the same thing during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections; they gave us just one or two seats, and you all know the results. The then Farrukhabad district magistrate changed the result, or else we would have won...