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On 15 October 2026 the Prime Minister virtually inaugurated Ladakh projects worth about ₹3,350 crore. They include a new passenger terminal at Leh and a 298-kilometre road through Zanskar. This is a different event from the same week's talks on Ladakh's political demands.
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has questioned years-late pre-matric and post-matric scholarships for Scheduled Caste students. On 15 October the chief secretaries of six states did not appear. A privilege move is developing. The reports do not agree on one delay figure.
A day of talks in Leh on 15 October between the Home Ministry, the Leh Apex Body and the Kargil Democratic Alliance ended without a deal. Sonam Wangchuk called it a continuation, not a failure, and described a huge gap. The next round is in Delhi on 22 October.
In 2023 Congress's T.D. Rajegowda won Karnataka's Sringeri seat by 201 votes. A May 2026 recount declared BJP's Jeevaraj the winner. Rajegowda has asked the Supreme Court for the 2023 counting video, the recount video and the observer report. The commission told the court the 2023 video could not be traced. The next hearing is 15 February 2027.
After Delhi's special intensive revision, 47,56,722 people, 32.78% of the roll, were left out of the draft list under the ASDD category. Petitioners say those voters are being asked to re-enrol on Form 6, the new-voter form. On 14 October the Supreme Court advanced the hearing from 30 October to 28 October. There is no order yet.
On 12 October 2026 President Droupadi Murmu appointed Governors for six states. Four names are new: Sudha Yadav in Karnataka, Braj Mohan Ram in Odisha, Dhal Singh Bisen in Uttarakhand and Dushyant Gautam in Sikkim. R.V. Arlekar moves from Keralam to Tamil Nadu. O.P. Mathur moves from Sikkim to Keralam. Each appointment takes effect when the appointee assumes charge. Posted at 7:50 pm IST on 13 October.
On 11 October 2026, PM Modi and CM C. Joseph Vijay opened the 15 km Poonamallee–Vadapalani stretch of Chennai Metro Phase II and rode it together. At IIT Madras, Modi launched projects worth over Rs 13,000 crore. Vijay then placed a list of requests with the Centre. Checked at 4:52 pm IST.
On 6 October, INDIA bloc MPs demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation were stopped on Parliament Street and sat on a dharna. Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were detained and released minutes later. The irregularities they allege are allegations. The Election Commission rejects them.
Voting on Tuesday, 6 October, covers five Assembly seats in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, and Assam's Nagaon Lok Sabha seat. Counting is on Friday, 9 October. This note does not predict a result.
On 5 October the BJP named eight nominees for Uttar Pradesh's 16 October Rajya Sabha polls. No retiring sitting BJP MP from the state was renominated, including Union ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and BL Verma. No official reason was stated.
On 26 September the commission said booth-level officers would collect documents at home, with hearings only in exceptional cases. By 30 September the extra SIR declaration was off the online Form 6 where the revision is complete. A claim that the form was changed illegally is kept separate from that.
Mallikarjun Kharge announced marches from 2 to 8 October, a march to the Election Commission on 6 October, and a Delhi rally on 1 November. The demand that CEC Gyanesh Kumar resign is a party demand. The Election Commission's stated position is set beside it.