Overview

• INDIA bloc leaders met in Delhi to consider an impeachment notice against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and accused the poll body of bias, with Parliament disrupted over demands for a debate on Bihar’s voter-roll revision.
• At a press conference, Gyanesh Kumar dismissed the 'vote theft' allegations as baseless and gave Rahul Gandhi seven days to file a sworn affidavit or have his claims treated as invalid, also demanding an apology if no affidavit is submitted.
• Opposition parties said the EC briefing failed to address the Supreme Court’s directive to publish the names and reasons for roughly 65 lakh deletions in Bihar, arguing the omission undermined transparency.
• Defending the Special Intensive Revision, the EC cited lawful procedures and offered explanations for alleged anomalies, including notional 'house number 0' addresses and clarification that reported voter deaths spanned many years.
• Rahul Gandhi escalated his campaign through a Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar and reiterated his claim of 1,00,250 irregular votes in Bengaluru’s Mahadevapura, while alleging selective targeting over the demand for an affidavit.