The protests demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Police had denied permission for the Jantar Mantar protest.

More than 30,000 security personnel were deployed, according to The Federal.

Leaders from the TMC, AAP, CPI(M) and other parties were detained.

Counts of those detained vary between reports.

Banerjee said that the situation in Delhi was beyond Emergency, according to National Herald.

Arvind Kejriwal was detained outside the residence while trying to join the demonstration, and footage showed Kejriwal in a police bus with AAP leaders, according to Oneindia.

At 8:49 pm, Kejriwal reported being released by police, according to a live blog by The Federal.

Inkl reported that Banerjee and Kejriwal were released from detention.

Kerala’s former chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, MA Baby and John Brittas were taken to Chhatrasal Stadium and then to Mandir Marg police station, according to Brittas as cited by The Federal.

Manik Sarkar and Elamaram Kareem were detained at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Bawana, according to The Federal.

CPI(ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, lawyer Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were also among those detained, according to Al Jazeera.

The CPI(M) alleged that its leaders were manhandled and denied food, water and medication, and that two of its leaders were injured, which are party allegations.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on X that the Modi government had turned the Mother of Democracy into a Muzzled Democracy, according to Al Jazeera.

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra dismissed the demonstrators as anarchic elements, said the protest had flopped and said that India was calm under good governance, according to Al Jazeera.

The protests were called against the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, which the Election Commission describes as routine.

More than 30,000 security personnel were deployed, with barricades across central Delhi, according to The Federal.

Counts of those detained varied from hundreds to more than 7,000 in different reports and could not be reconciled.

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The Special Intensive Revision is the Election Commission’s re-verification of electoral rolls.

In Maharashtra, claims and objections close on October 12.

Camps are on October 10 and 11 at polling stations.

Online applications can be made at voters.eci.gov.in.

Keep supporting documents ready.

From October 5 to 9, special camps were held at all colleges and universities in the state.

Booth Level Officers helped students to fill in application forms and answered their questions at the campus camps.

Booth Level Officers have also been visiting homes to identify eligible citizens missing from the draft electoral roll.

They collect Form 6 after verifying eligibility.

Form 6 is the form that eligible citizens use to apply for inclusion in the electoral roll.

People who have moved and appear on the absent or migrated list compiled during house-to-house enumeration can apply for re-enrolment or correction.

That list is available on the website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra, at ceoelection.maharashtra.gov.in.

Applications can be handed to the Electoral Registration Officer, the Assistant Electoral Registration Officer, the local Booth Level Officer or a designated polling station on camp days.

Applications can also be submitted online through the Election Commission’s voter services portal, voters.eci.gov.in, or the ECINET mobile app.

The office has appealed to people to apply digitally where they can, according to The Hans India.

Electoral Registration Officers will process complete applications with the required supporting documents for inclusion in the assembly constituency voter lists.

On October 5, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis defended the SIR as a routine but essential process that needs periodic, in-depth verification so that no eligible citizen is excluded.

The Supreme Court heard petitions on the Special Intensive Revision on October 5, and on the Form 6 declaration used in it.

Applicants should keep their supporting documents ready, because incomplete applications cannot be processed.

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Narendra Modi first took the oath as Gujarat Chief Minister on October 7, 2001.

Modi has been Prime Minister since 2014.

At a BJP event on October 7, 2026, Modi said the milestone was 25 years as head of government.

Modi credited public trust and party workers.

Modi called for renewed commitment towards a developed India by 2047.

Modi credited the people, whom Modi called Janardan, and said public trust and the efforts of party workers have been the main strength.

Modi thanked BJP and NDA colleagues for their support, according to Open magazine.

Modi said the experience and trust of the 25 years belong to the country and not to Modi alone, according to India.com.

Two of the lines at the event were that service is duty and that Modi lives for mission and not ambition.

The new slogan Modi gave was We will do it, and the audience repeated it after each target named, according to NewsX and Hans India.

Modi called for renewed commitment towards the 2047 vision of a developed India.

Reports differ on how many goals were named, with some saying three, some five and some six, so this report does not give a count.

Modi recalled school days in Vadnagar, the 2001 Bhuj earthquake, the Chandrayaan mission and the Covid crisis, according to India.com.

Modi said the Bhuj earthquake taught the lesson of staying steadfast in reconstruction and the Covid crisis showed the importance of collective consciousness.

NDA leaders who attended included Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, minister Nara Lokesh, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Union minister Chirag Paswan, according to Open magazine.

Traffic curbs were imposed on several Delhi roads from 5 am to 1 pm because of the event, according to LatestLY.

The Union Cabinet adopted a resolution listing achievements in welfare, reform, technology, security and foreign policy, which Open magazine noted are the government’s own claims.

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