Overview

• Priyanka Gandhi renewed attacks on the Election Commission over the Special Intensive Revision, pressing for answers on alleged voter-list manipulation after earlier claims by Rahul Gandhi.
• Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar had publicly termed the ‘vote theft’ accusations baseless and urged proof via affidavit or an apology.
• Lokniti-CSDS’s Sanjay Kumar deleted a post on steep voter increases in two Maharashtra seats and apologized, attributing the error to a data-team misread, as BJP leaders seized on the mistake.
• A viral Varanasi voter list showing many entries with the same father’s name was verified as a local urban-body roll and explained by devotees listing their guru’s name, according to the UP CEO and temple management.
• In parallel developments, the Income Tax Department searched about 30 sites tied to Congress leader G. Ranjith Reddy and the DSR Group, and NHAI fined and moved to terminate a toll contractor after an Army soldier was assaulted near Meerut.