Overview
- Voting for five assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat took place on Tuesday and counting is scheduled for October 9, with officials reporting high turnout in several constituencies.
- The Election Commission described polling as largely peaceful while its complaint portals logged dozens of formal reports that will be reviewed before results are declared.
- AJUP chief Humayun Kabir was detained after a campaign clash in Rejinagar, released about 12 hours later, and told reporters he may quit electoral politics and predicted a BJP win in Murshidabad.
- INDIA bloc leaders led by Tejashwi Yadav were detained during a Raj Bhavan march demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and a fresh review of voter rolls.
- Separate law-and-order incidents produced new arrests and probes, including a Faridabad arrest in a youth's death, a Samastipur confession to a July murder, a tractor attack in Bijnor that killed three, and an investigation into a farmer's death in Latur.