A bench of Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta was not convinced with advocate Prashant Bhushan's arguments to go back to election via ballot paper instead of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
Gearing up for the Lok Sabha elections and the simultaneous by-elections in Tripura's Ramnagar assembly constituency, Chief Electoral Officer of Tripura (West) Dr Vishal Kumar, said on Friday that multi-colour ballot papers and separate polling compartments will be introduced exclusively
Digvijaya Singh had recently said that he was working to get 400 people to file nominations from his constituency so that polling could be conducted through the ballot paper.
Vijayvargiya made the remark while speaking to ANI in Chhindwara on Tuesday, when questioned about Singh, who is contesting from the Rajgarh Lok Sabha seat in upcmoing Lok Sabha elections, on Sunday proposed a way of conducting elections through ballot papers in his constituency.
Sharma made the remark while talking to reporters in the state capital Bhopal on Monday, after Singh, who is contesting from the Rajgarh Lok Sabha seat, on Sunday proposed a way of conducting elections through ballot paper in his constituency.
"There is a way if you want the elections to be conducted through ballot paper here. If 400 candidates contest from one seat, the polls will be conducted through ballot paper. I am preparing for that," Singh said while speaking at a street meeting at Kachnaria village in Rajgarh on Sunday.
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed two writ petitions: namely, apprehensions over 19 lakhs missing EVMs and another petition to use ballot paper to conduct elections while reposing its faith in the EVMs.
Casting aspersions on the Election Commission (EC), veteran Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Digvijaya Singh, on Thursday claimed that there doubts around the unbiased conduct of the poll panel.
A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra directed that the necessary security arrangements shall be made to ensure the safe transit and proper preservation and custody of ballet papers along with judicial officers.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court came down heavily on the Returning Officer who held the Chandigarh Mayor elections, saying he was "murdering democracy" and ordered the preservation of the entire record of the election process, including ballot papers, videography and other material, th
Amid allegations of rigging and electoral malfeasance in Pakistan's general elections, re-polling is currently underway at 53 polling stations in Khushab, Kohat, and Ghotki following the shredding of ballot papers by a mob on February 8, ARY News reported.
Singh wrote on X on Friday morning, "FLC (first level check) work of all the EVMs is currently being done in the district. The engineers open the ballot unit or control unit completely but not the VVPAT machine. When I requested to open it, they said that there are instructions from highe