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Track These and more on www.indianexpress.com business as usual By EP uNNy in leTTer TO rAhUl & KhArge, CJi flAgs sePArATiOn Of POWers, eThiCs AnD JUDiCiAl PrOPrieTy Opp leaders put up united front, march to SC, file joint petition DelhiPolice denotifies Jantarmantar asprotestsite No parallel protests, all one protest: Rahul; SP, TMC, RJD, CPM join march 2 of 3 new venues over 20 km from Central Delhi Asad rehman New Delhi, October 12 2026 noBel prize economics rOBerT e hAll miChAel WOODfOrD using policy tools to ‘stabilise’ economy p 13 eSCALATInG THeIr campaign seeking the removal of Chief election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and scrapping of the Special Intensive revision (SIr) of electoral rolls, oppositionparties,ledbytheCongress, drew thousands of workers and supporters to the streets of Delhi for a march to the Supreme Court. Senior opposition leaders, who were part ofthemarchmonday,alsofiled a joint petition at the apex court, raising these issues. earlier, addressing a press conference, Leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha, rahul Gandhi, said that “all protests (against Kumar) are part of just one protest”. “There are no parallel protests, there is one protest... We do not care who you are, which formation you come from... If you are protecting the »COnTinUeD On PAge 2 inside pAGe 10 NSA dovAl, hiS irAN couNterpArt SpeAk oN phoNe inside probe ec deciSioNS: opp’S pleA iN Sc pAGe 5 sakshi Chand, Alok singh, Amaal sheikh & sohini ghosh New Delhi, October 12 during a protest march by opposition leaders on Barakhamba road, new delhi, monday. ABhInAv SAhA Puretheatrics, Congleadership atfaultforits losses,saysBJP Over 60% of 33 lakh SIR cases in Delhi disposed of, shows CEO data express news service Devansh mittal New Delhi, October 12 New Delhi, October 12 AS THe opposition leaders marched to the Supreme Court on monday to file a petition againstChiefelectionCommissioner (CeC) Gyanesh Kumar, the BJP hit back at Leader of opposition(LoP)rahulGandhi and the Congress, labelling the THe CASeS of 20 lakh electors — more than 60% — out of the 33 lakh who had received notices to prove their eligibility to stay on the electoral roll in Delhi have been resolved, the office of the Delhi Chief electoral officer (Ceo) said monday. The Ceo’s office still has »COnTinUeD On PAge 2 more than 50 days until December 4 to publish the final electoral rolls for Delhi. The deadline for the publication of thefinalrollswasrevisedforthe fourth time on September 26. The process of disposal of notices and objections progressedslowlyinthefirst30days with only 4 lakh notices disposed — until September 29 — »COnTinUeD On PAge 2 DeLHI PoLICe onmondaydenotifiedJantarmantarasadesignated protest site and notifiedthreeothervenuesinstead, two of which are at least 20 km from Central Delhi. The order came after the Congress-led InDIA opposition bloc, the Cockroach Janta Party(CJP),andtheLeftparties called for protests at various places in Central Delhi, includingJantarmantar,overthepast week to demand the resignation of Chief election Commissioner (CeC) Gyanesh Kumar. over the past three days, Delhi Police have deployed thousands of personnel to »COnTinUeD On PAge 2 whAt courtS hAve SAid oN proteSt SiteS p 13 more reportS, pAGeS 4, 5 DAys AfTer rATe hiKe, PressUre On rBi Rising food prices push retail inflation to 5.54% in Sept siddharth Upasani New Delhi, October 12 DAySAFTerthereserveBank ofIndia(rBI)increasedinterest rates for the first time in over three-and-a-halfyears,government data released on monday showed that headline inflation rate surged from 4.83% in August to 5.54% in September, driven mostly by high food prices. While there was a monthon-month increase in overall prices,anunfavourablebaseeffectalsoplayedaroleinpushing up the headline inflation rate. Inasignthatpricepressures are spreading, core inflation rose from 4.1% in August to 4.3% in September. Core inflation measures how the price of the household consumption basket has changed, after excluding food and fuel items whosepricescanmovesharply, tending to have an outsized influence on the overall inflation rate. As such, economists like to narrow down on the core inflation rate to understand underlying price pressures. According to data released bytheministryofStatisticsand Programme Implementation (moSPI)onmonday,foodinflation rose sharply from 5.97% in August to 7.74% in September, »COnTinUeD On PAge 2 In Rajasthan, former BJP MLA beaten to death by villagers Parul Kulshrestha Jaipur, October 12 FormermLAofBayanainrajasthan’sBharatpurdistrictand BJPleaderAtarSinghBhadana, 68, was beaten to death by a group of 70-80 people at his stone-crusher plant on Sunday evening. His aide, Gagan Sharma, was left seriously injured in the attack. The attack happened in Bhonda village of Bharatpur, atar singh Bhadana while Bhadana was visiting his unit, and was allegedly the »COnTinUeD On PAge 2 CBC 15204/13/0111/2627 Happening today