Timeline

  1. New law removes the chief justice from the panel that selects India's election commissioners

  2. Gyanesh Kumar is selected as Chief Election Commissioner over the opposition leader's dissent

  3. India launches Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls in Bihar

  4. Bihar's draft electoral roll leaves out about 6.5 million entries

  5. Bihar's final electoral roll is published with about 74.2 million electors

  6. Indian Express reports that two election commissioners objected to revision decisions

  7. Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi detained during protests over voter registers

  8. Police detain more than 2,000 people at Cockroach Janta Party protest against the Election Commission in New Delhi

  9. Delhi police detain Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke again before a rally

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