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BJP leader Sanju Verma said the TMC won in Sujapur, Raghunathganj, Shamsherganj, Ratua and Suti which are the five places where the maximum SIR deletions took place in West Bengal. She also stated that the BJP won in the areas which had lowest SIR deletions. "So this narrative that SIR deletions help the BJP is wrong," Verma added.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his "gratitude to the people for their continuous blessings" after BJP candidates won bypolls in Assam and West Bengal amid protests by the Opposition against CEC Gyanesh Kumar. "This mandate will give us added strength as we work tirelessly for the welfare of the people," he added. PM also congratulated BJP candidates for their victory.

I.N.D.I.A bloc MPs began their march from Parliament to Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday. Opposition MPs are scheduled to meet President Droupadi Murmu to raise their concerns regarding the functioning of the Election Commission. The opposition leaders, carrying placards and raising slogans, sought an intervention from the President regarding electoral integrity and the conduct of the EC.

Mamata Banerjee's nephew and MP Abhishek Banerjee shared a fake news claiming that BJP got more votes than registered voters in a booth during bypoll in West Bengal's Rejinagar. "Even North Korea would struggle to explain this electoral arithmetic," Abhishek posted on X. BJP's Anirban Ganguly slammed him stating, "People of West Bengal are smart. They can't be fooled."

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the government to consider designating an alternative venue to Jantar Mantar for peaceful protests in Delhi. The court stated that the national capital needed a larger, better-equipped space where citizens could exercise their democratic right to protest without compromising public safety, access to emergency services or the interests of other residents.

During ongoing SIR process in Telangana, several voters who had submitted their enumeration forms couldn't find their names in draft rolls and instead ended up on the ASDD list. These electors were wrongly marked as absent, untraceable, shifted, or in some cases, dead. Activists working on voter rights called the entire process of electoral revision in Telangana an exercise of unlawful exclusion.