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Across Bihar and West Bengal, lakhs of voters were deleted from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, leaving them unable to vote in the 2025 and 2026 Assembly elections. Over 47 lakh names were deleted in Bihar and nearly 91 lakh in West Bengal. Shrabana Chatterjee and Senjuti Sengupta met some of those affected, documenting the uncertainty, paperwork, and repeated attempts to prove their citizenship and eligibility that followed the deletions

Khadi Santa marks Gadhi Jayanti celebrations in Vijayawada

He added that it is up to the government and the Delhi Police whether they “respect our right to peaceful protest or repeat the brutality we witnessed on July 20”.

Imran Masood, Saharanpur MP, appointed Working President; the appointments, coming months before the Assembly polls, are seen as an attempt to forge a social coalition of Brahmin-Muslim-Dalit communities

Describing him as the pravachan mantri, Jairam Ramesh shared a media report on X which said household kitchen budgets had increased by 20% to 25% over the past three months and asked when people would get relief from “back-breaking inflation”

Leaders of the three parties are making last-minute outreach to the voters, even as Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, who covered the constituency once, is planning to visit it again on October 4

“Actor Chief Minister” C. Joseph Vijay, after playing a hero in Jananayagan, had turned a villain by imposing a byelection through “horse-trading” and “murder of democracy”, says Stalin

The panel will independently evaluate the “constitutional and statutory validity, methodology, and overall impact of the SIR exercise on eligible voters”