Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took a sharp dig at the Opposition, saying that the people of Bihar gave a "65-volt jhatka" to those who thrived during the era of Jungle Raj in the first phase of the Assembly elections.
The Commission, headed by Chairman Jasvir Singh Garhi, has issued a notice to the Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly and senior Congress leader Pratap Singh Bajwa, directing him to appear in person before the Commission on November 10, 2025, at its Chandigarh office.
The Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission has taken suo motu notice of a reported caste-based discrimination incident during the Tarn Taran Vikas Mela, where Assistant Labour Commissioner Jasvir Singh (Bhagta Jatana) was allegedly made to sit separately.
Chaudhary had earlier claimed a comfortable BJP victory. The Jan Suraaj founder, saying that the BJP leader should worry about winning his own constituency, Tarapur, first rather than commenting on the overall performance of the BJP and NDA.
Condemning the opposition, the BJP leader later said that the claims made by the opposition party are baseless and "don't believe such misleading rhetoric".
AMMK General Secretary TTV Dhinakaran has launched a sharp attack on AIADMK leader Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS), linking him to the Kodanad hiest-cum-murder case while also predicting a political shake-up with the emergence of actor Vijay's TVK (Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam) party.
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and BJP's candidate from Tarapur, Samrat Choudhary, expressed confidence that the NDA will return to power with a strong majority as the polling in the 121 constituencies in the first phase of the election began on Thursday.
BSF troops recovered an assembled quadcopter in Amritsar and a packet of suspected heroin in Tarn Taran in two separate operations along the Punjab border, highlighting the force's vigilance against cross-border smuggling attempts by narco syndicates.