🔹Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls is underway, the most thorough review before the 2026 Assembly elections, with 1 January 2026 as the cut-off for new voters.
🔹AI-based verification tools deployed, facial matching tech now scans voter photos to weed out fake, duplicate, or deceased entries, especially after complaints of migrant workers’ photos being misused.
🔹Booth Level Officers (BLOs) remain crucial, despite AI, ground-level checks continue to ensure accuracy.
🔹Political heat rising, Congress and other opposition parties have already held meetings with senior leaders, questioning the fairness of the process, while BJP and TMC trade barbs over alleged manipulation.

- At the Northern Zonal Council meet, Delhi CM Rekha Gupta flagged Punjab’s smoke as a significant contributor.
- Satellite data and AQI spikes consistently show late-October to mid-November smog waves coinciding with Punjab’s stubble fires.
- When Congress ruled Punjab, AAP leaders in Delhi loudly blamed Punjab’s smoke for choking the capital. Now, with AAP in power in Punjab, the narrative flips, suddenly the smoke “never reaches Delhi.”

🔹Farmers caught in the middle: Mann accuses others of “defaming Punjab’s food growers”, but offers no credible alternative for crop residue management. Haryana and UP have adopted bio-decomposers and stricter monitoring, Punjab lags behind.

- Congress held a high‑profile meeting in Delhi after the Bihar defeat.
- Most faces in the room have never won an election; some have never even contested.
- Those who have won are largely dynasts, disconnected from grassroots struggles.
- No presence of ground‑level leaders, the room is filled with loyalists and sycophants.

🔹Instead of introspection, the party leans on slogans of “vote chori” and blaming Adani‑Ambani.
🔹This pattern repeats: huge anti‑incumbency against BJP, yet Congress fails to convert it into victories.

- At Fraserganj, South 24 Parganas, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) caught a Bangladeshi boat illegally entering Indian waters. 29 Bangladeshi fishermen were arrested by the Coastal Police.
- All are now in custody and will face trial in court.
- The arrests come amid heightened border security concerns and political debates over infiltration and migration in Bengal.