Overview

• Darbhanga’s Senior Superintendent of Police told ANI a man accused of abusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his late mother from a rally dais has been arrested.
• BJP leaders filed complaints and FIRs and held protests, with party workers clashing with Congress workers in Patna on Friday.
• News agencies reported they could not independently verify the viral clip that circulated from the Voter Adhikar Yatra stop in Darbhanga.
• Reports said Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav were not on the stage when the abusive slogans were recorded, and Congress figures publicly condemned the language.
• Local organiser Mohammad Naushad was associated with the podium and later apologised, while the yatra continues toward its scheduled conclusion ahead of Bihar’s assembly polls.