Overnight desks stayed on Washington after the midterm rout, reporting Trump’s replacement of Susie Wiles with Stephen Miller and Democratic plans to probe Trump allies’ crypto ties to Pakistan, alongside the arrest of an armed Venezuelan near the White House.
Attention then turned to the Congress offensive. Excerpts from Sonia Gandhi’s memoir interview accused the BJP of damaging India’s fabric and called the Emergency a mistake that reining in Sanjay Gandhi could have limited, drawing a BJP ‘PR exercise’ and ‘Italian glasses’ retort, while Rahul Gandhi’s claim of excess ethanol in Karnataka petrol was denied by the Centre.
By evening coverage moved to Diwali eve in Ayodhya, where live reports counted 30-36 lakh diyas at Deepotsav as Yogi Adityanath told Akhilesh Yadav to apologise to Ram bhakts before his December visit, while Delhi’s AQI stayed very poor under GRAP-III and Modi said he would celebrate with soldiers.