Overview

• Congress has been offered about 60–61 seats, but negotiations remain unresolved over specific constituencies such as Kahalgaon, Narkatiaganj, Warisaliganj, Chainpur and Bachhwara, and confusion persists over the VIP quota.
• Tejashwi Yadav left a high-level Delhi meeting saying the alliance could not move forward on current terms, returned to Patna without meeting Rahul Gandhi or Mallikarjun Kharge, and later oversaw the recall of RJD symbols that Lalu Prasad Yadav had handed to aspirants.
• A Zee News report flagged fresh strain signals as RJD MP Manoj Jha posted a cautionary couplet and late-night chatter claimed a possible formula, which remains unconfirmed by the parties.
• In the Haryana IPS Y. Puran Kumar suicide case, the state sent DGP Shatrugjit Kapoor on leave and registered an FIR naming officers cited in the note, after the former Rohtak SP was removed earlier.
• Public safety and information integrity updates: five suspects were arrested and sent to police remand in the Durgapur medical student gangrape case; Eastern Railway said only three people were injured at Bardhaman station and denied a stampede; UP Police reported two wanted suspects killed in separate encounters within 24 hours; a viral clip alleging ‘vote chori’ slogans before Nitish Kumar was found edited, according to a fact-check.