Union Home Minister Amit Shah will take a wide-ranging trip across Uttar Pradesh starting in late November, ahead of the state's Assembly polls. A BJP source says he will go to all six party regions to lift workers' spirits.
The first leg will cover two of those regions in November, and the party is planning for Shah to stay overnight in each of the six. He will also sit down with senior figures from each area to map out strategy.
District-level meetings and public rallies should follow.
NCP (SP) national working president Supriya Sule says no merger proposal has reached her. Speaking in New Delhi, she said any chance of the two factions coming back together ended when her cousin Ajit Pawar died.
NCP Maharashtra chief Sunil Tatkare has also dismissed the speculation. Sule called a recent meeting of senior leaders with Amit Shah an internal matter.
She said merger talks did take place while Ajit Pawar was alive, and a video of one such meeting in Baramati is already public.
Congress leader Sachin Sawant has hit out at the Union and Maharashtra governments after Amitabh Bachchan was seen greeting fans behind protective glass outside his Mumbai home. The glass was removed on Sunday, and Sawant asked whether that followed public criticism or BJP pressure.
He asked PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah when the film industry would be made secure. He also said a person accused of stoking fear in the industry was living in comfort in Gujarat's Sabarmati jail, and blamed the failure on BJP-led governments at the Centre and in Maharashtra.
Congress MP Manickam Tagore says Amit Shah should first get PM Narendra Modi to debate Rahul Gandhi in public. The contest, he argues, should be between the head of government and the Leader of the Opposition.
Tagore's reply came a day after Shah, at a rally in Haryana, asked Gandhi to press Modi for a special Parliament session. Tagore called that a cover for a delimitation bill and said Gandhi wants a neutral venue, claiming his mic is repeatedly cut off in the House.
Tagore also pointed to a whole session lost after Shah declined to address alleged pellet-gun use against students.
Home Minister Amit Shah has set the BJP a target of winning over 65 of Uttarakhand's 70 Assembly seats in the 2027 polls. At a Dehradun rally marking the state's 26th Foundation Day, he said the party would form the government again.
Shah accused Rahul Gandhi of being upset over encroachment action on 29 acres in Haldwani. He also said the Congress had neglected border-area roads amid concerns over China.
Shah credited Atal Bihari Vajpayee with creating Uttarakhand on November 9, 2000, and claimed tourism in the state had grown 380 per cent.
Amit Shah has taken up Rahul Gandhi's call to debate the SIR voter roll revision, but says the discussion belongs in Parliament. The government will convene a special session if Congress formally asks for one.
Shah told Gandhi to write to PM Modi if he really wants a debate. He noted that Congress lost the 2014, 2019 and 2024 Lok Sabha polls, all without an SIR exercise.
Shah also questioned Congress's demand that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign, likening the party to a losing kabaddi team blaming the referee.
Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Aradhana Mishra says voter deletions and Amit Shah's visit to the state are meant to unseat Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
She pointed to a gap between the voter figure the chief minister cited at a working committee meeting, about 16.7 crore, and the roughly 13.4 crore voters left after the SIR process. That, she said, is a drop of about 3.31 crore votes.
Mishra also called the BJP's yatras in the state and across India undemocratic. She said Congress, under Rahul Gandhi, would succeed in restoring democracy.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has accused Rahul Gandhi of disrupting Parliament and making boycotts a habit for the Congress. He made the charge at a rally in Karnal, Haryana, after leading a BJP march there on Thursday.
Shah again offered a special Parliament session to debate the revision of electoral rolls known as SIR, and accused the INDIA bloc of shielding infiltrators. He also asked Gandhi to disclose his foreign visits, since he is the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
Congress has responded to Home Minister Amit Shah, who said the INDIA bloc's November 1 rally was meant to protect infiltrators. Party media chief Pawan Khera said Shah should quit the Home Ministry if he cannot handle it.
Khera questioned Shah's handling of internal security, citing violence in Manipur, the Pahalgam attack, a 2025 blast near the Red Fort and 300 kg of RDX recovered near Delhi.
Shah made the remarks at a Karnal rally, where he also said the BJP would detect, delete and deport infiltrators from electoral rolls.
Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Pankaj Chaudhary has hit back at the Opposition over its claims about EVMs, voter lists and the Election Commission. He argued that blame is being put on institutions and party workers, while nobody admits their own shortcomings.
The BJP's 'Loktantra Bachao, Arajakta Hatao' campaign is a response to Opposition claims over the Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls.
Amit Shah led the march in Hyderabad, and Nitin Nabin led one in Kolkata. Marches have also been held in Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Bhopal and Hamirpur.
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