Overview

• Filing is set for 11 am in Parliament with Prime Minister Narendra Modi present, with multiple nomination sets and outreach to opposition parties led by Rajnath Singh.
• At an NDA meeting, Modi praised Radhakrishnan as a straightforward OBC leader and castigated the Indus Water Treaty as a Congress-era mistake that, he said, diverted India’s water to Pakistan.
• Rahul Gandhi’s voter-rights tour in Bihar amplified ‘vote theft’ claims tied to the Special Intensive Revision, with Priyanka Gandhi seeking Election Commission answers and Tejashwi Yadav pitching him as a future PM, as officials said a viral Varanasi roll with identical fathers’ names reflected an ashram tradition.
• The Income Tax Department raided about 30 locations linked to Congress leader G. Ranjith Reddy and Hyderabad-based DSR Group in Hyderabad and Bengaluru, seizing documents and equipment in a tax-evasion probe.
• After high-level White House talks with Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders, President Trump said arrangements are being made for a Putin–Zelensky meeting followed by a three-way session that he would attend.