This special report covers the Congress party's allegations against the Election Commission of India following a significant defeat in Bihar. Congress leader and Member of Parliament Bhupesh Baghel has accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of facilitating a victory for the BJP. The report highlights Baghel's claim that '65 lakh votes were deleted by the CEC and that's why this kind of a mandate has come through'. The programme notes that the Congress contested 61 seats and was leading in only one, suggesting the scale of the loss which prompted the party to blame the electoral body for the outcome.
In an exclusive interview with India Today, legal expert Harish Salve discussed the constitutional crisis in West Bengal following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's refusal to resign despite losing her seat and the decisive mandate against her party.
An India Today ground report from Tehran details the ongoing conflict, its impact on the city's infrastructure and how Iranians have gathered at Enghelab Square to demonstrate solidarity and unity amid war.
The Congress state unit in Tamil Nadu held an online meeting and decided to extend support to TVK. Congress is seeking a power-sharing agreement and is likely to demand two cabinet portfolios, along with a few board and corporation chairman posts, and other government roles such as trust members and directors.
Watch as India Today's Geeta Mohan brings this exclusive ground report from Iran's fourteenth-century Golestan Palace, which was damaged during the US-Israel airstrikes on Tehran.
