[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Nearly seven lakh voters have been added to the electoral rolls in West Bengal ahead of the assembly elections, officials said, though detailed demographic data is yet to be released by the Election Commission of India. Of the newly added electorate, about 3.22 lakh are set to vote in the first phase, […]
[ad_1] Representative image (File photo) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted the Calcutta HC chief justice to requisition judicial officers from neighbouring Jharkhand and Odisha to help such officers in West Bengal in expeditiously scrutinising and determining validity of claims of voters falling under ‘logical discrepancy’ or ‘unmapped’ categories of the Special Intensive Revision […]
[ad_1] Election Commission of India (ECI) NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Tuesday published the final electoral rolls for Assam after the Special Revision (SR) exercise. Over 2.43 lakh names were removed from the draft list ahead of the Assembly elections due in the coming months.According to a statement issued by the office of the […]
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court asked the Election Commission on Thursday to provide information on how many voters have been deleted on the grounds of “suspected citizenship” in the SIR drive.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi noted that only three categories of deletion of voters have been furnished by EC […]
[ad_1] Bihar elections 2025 (Representational) NEW DELHI: Women voters took the lead in what the Election Commission of India (ECI) described as Bihar’s highest-ever voter turnout, with 71.6 per cent of female electors casting their ballots compared to 62.8 per cent of men. According to ECI data released on Tuesday after the conclusion of the […]
[ad_1] On August 7, at the Congress headquarters in new Delhi, party leader Rahul Gandhi stood in a room filled with cameras and anticipation, holding what he described as proof of India’s gravest democratic crisis. The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha raised a spiral-bound stack of papers, culled from a seven-foot pile […]
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday hit back at Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi and other INDIA bloc parties over their repeated use of the term “vote chori,” saying such “dirty phrases” were aimed at creating a false narrative. The poll body called it a direct attack on […]
[ad_1] It is a sultry August morning in Patna, and the Sadar block office wears the quiet, composed air of a still life portrait. Three officers sit at their desks, a laptop loaded with draft electoral rolls before them, a wall pasted with printed lists…and zero visitors. Not a single elector has walked in to […]
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday hinted at a large-scale electoral roll tampering conspiracy allegedly led by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Bihar, ahead of the assembly election scheduled for the end of the year.A day after an RJD leader claimed that his name was omitted from the voter list following the […]
[ad_1] Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday ruled out any discussion in Parliament on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, asserting that the exercise falls entirely within the purview of the Election Commission of India (ECI), a constitutional body. “I want to clarify that the government is ready to hold discussions […]
