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Bengal Congress Leader Urges Sonia Gandhi to Offer Bypoll Support to TMC in Kharagpur to Stop BJP
On October 25, the Election Commission had announced that the by-elections in West Bengal for vacant Kaliaganj in North Dinajpur, Kharagpur Sadar in West Midnapore, and Karimpur assembly seats in Nadia district will be held on November 25. Kolkata: In a significant political development, senior Congress leader Abdul Mannan wrote a letter to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi expressing party’s weak position in Kharagpur and suggested that only way to stop BJP in the coming Bypolls is to support the ruling TMC in West Bengal. On October 25, the Election Commission (EC)Read More
SC Seeks EC’s Response Over Opposition Plea On Audit Of EVMs
The Election Commission was on Friday asked by the Supreme Court to file a response on a plea by the 21 opposition parties seeking the audit of at least 50 percent of EVMs with the corresponding Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs). Issuing the notice to the EC, the bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed the election panel to depute an officer to assist the court on the next hearing of the matter on March 25. The plea was filed by theRead More
Three-member Committee to help EC decide on Assembly polls in J&K
After the declaration of holding Lok Sabha decisions in Jammu and Kashmir, the Election Commission has chosen to send a 3-part group to Jammu and Kashmir to hold gathering elections. On Tuesday, three individuals from the extraordinary group achieved the Election Commission’s central station and talked about the procedure ahead. The Special Central Observer, Dr. Nur Mohammad, Vinod Zutshi and AS Gill, who went to the primary decision Election Commission, met the Chief Commissioner Sunil Arora, Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra in this 3-part group. The Central Observer willRead More
High Court Seeks Poll Body Reply To De-Register Ruling Party Of Nagaland
The Delhi High Court Wednesday looked for the reaction of the Election Commission on a supplication looking for de-enrollment of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), which drives the union government in Nagaland. Equity Yogesh Khanna likewise looked for the answer of NDPP on the appeal recorded by an occupant of the state, testing the request gone by the Election Commission of India (ECI) rejecting her supplication. The request recorded by Zeneisilie Ate Louchii blamed a few NDPP individuals for outfitting “false” and “manufactured” data while looking for enlistment asRead More
Oposition delegation to election commission : demanding 50% of matching EVM’s
Leaders of several opposition parties approached the Election Commission on Monday for the issue of alleged tampering of electronic voting machines (EVMs). The opposition leaders has demanded to the poll panel, to ensure that the 50 percent of the results through EVM are matched and cross-checked with voter verifiable paper audit trails (VVPAT’s) before declaration of the results in the upcoming lok sabha elections. Except for that they also told the election commission that peoples of the country are having doubt on the efficacy of EVM’s and this issue isRead More