Raghopur is traditionally the “family seat” of Lalu-Rabri Yadav. Lalu, Rabri Devi, and now Tejashwi Yadav have held this seat. In 2025, Satish Kumar Yadav (BJP) is being fielded against Tejashwi Yadav, making it a high-profile direct contest. Because it has symbolic as well as electoral weight, the RJD would like to retain it as a prestige victory, while NDA would like to break the hold. Tejashwi Yadav (RJD) won Raghopur in 2020 with a victory margin of 38174 against runner-up Satish Kumar. This seat has seen repeated wins by the Yadav family (Lalu, Rabri) over decades.
The two rivals last met in the 2025 UEFA Nations League final, where Portugal triumphed on penalties after an entertaining 2-2 draw, but Spain enter this contest looking far more convincing.
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Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 will carry technology demonstrations, a robotic arm experiment and artwork as India prepares for its first privately developed orbital rocket launch
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The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust appointed Krishna Mohan as interim general secretary and initiated the process to appoint a chief executive officer
As a base-case scenario, they have maintained June 2027 Sensex target at 89,000 levels, up nearly 14 per cent from the current levels. Morgan Stanley attached 50 per cent probability to this forecast.