The Special Intensive Revision had a big impact in the districts going to polls in the second phase. 

 The BJP’s prospects hinges on overperformance in Jangalmahal and North Bengal, alongside strategic inroads into Greater Kolkata, a TMC bastion 

 Rajnath Singh called for forging a unified front to tackle terrorism, separatism, extremism by eliminating safe havens and rejecting any political exceptions. 

 A bandh by Dalit groups in Kerala over a student’s suicide led to clashes and arrests, disrupting normal life statewide amid demands for justice. 

 A tribal man in Odisha faced outrage after carrying his sister’s skeletal remains to a bank to claim her savings; the bank later processed the claim.