SANTINIKETAN: The age gap between Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and his late mother, Amita Sen, is around 19-and-a-half years. But on Wednesday, an SIR hearing notice reached his Santiniketan house, Pratichi, because the EC found that the age difference was below 15 years.As per the 2025 SIR draft roll, the age of Amartya Sen is […]
Suvendu Adhikari and Mamata Banerjee (Images/Agencies) NEW DELHI: West Bengal leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Monday sent a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, dismissing CM Mamata Banerjee‘s “desperate lies” about the SIR exercise and her latest request to the Election Commission to halt it. The BJP leader said her concerns were […]
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Saturday doubled the remuneration for Booth Level Officers (BLOs) from Rs 6,000 to Rs 12,000 per election cycle. The decision also includes an increase in pay for BLO supervisors, whose remuneration has been raised from Rs 12,000 to Rs 18,000.“The electoral roll machinery, consisting of Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), […]
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday levelled serious allegations against the Election Commission and the BJP, claiming the two were working together to misuse the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. He alleged that the revision exercise was being deployed to “cancel over 50,000 votes” in assembly constituencies where INDIA […]
NEW DELHI: The smooth and peaceful conduct of Bihar assembly elections with the highest-ever turnout of voters, particularly after the first SIR of its electoral roll in over two decades, will boost the confidence of EC as it goes about Phase 2 of SIR across a dozen other states and UTs, including those due for […]
Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin (ANI photo/file) NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu’s governing party DMK on Monday filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Election Commission‘s decision to conduct special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls of all states. It alleged that SIR is an arbitrary exercise that would […]
NEW DELHI: RJD MP Manoj Jha has written to the Election Commission, accusing the Bihar government of violating the Model Code of Conduct or MCC by transferring money to women under Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana, dated October 17, 24, and 31, after the poll schedule was announced. In his complaint, he also mentioned that the […]
MUMBAI: Closing ranks ahead of the civic elections, the opposition bloc of Sena (UBT), Congress and NCP (SP) will hold a joint rally with Raj Thackeray-led MNS on Nov 1 against “arbitrary and corrupt administration of Election Commission”.The announcement was made Sunday, just after Raj accused EC of inserting 96 lakh fake voters in the […]
A controversy erupted ahead of the Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election in Telangana after fake voter ID cards bearing the photos of actresses Tamannaah Bhatia, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, and Rakul Preet Singh were discovered at a single residential address. The authorities from the Election Commission have confirmed that they are investigating the matter to determine how […]
NEW DELHI: Continued accusations from NGO-petitioners that the Election Commission deleted names from the Bihar voter list after the special intensive revision made EC retort in the Supreme Court that all political parties have expressed satisfaction with the exercise and that not a single appeal has been filed against the deletion of names. The bench […]
