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"Trinamool's vote bank consists of Bangaldeshis, Rohingyas": Sukanta Majum
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
"TMC has always done this because they know their vote bank consists of Rohingya and Muslims who came from Bangladesh, just so that those people's names not be cut they are doing this," the Union Minister told ANI.
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INDIA bloc continue protest against Bihar SIR, labourers' arrest at Parlia
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Sonia Gandhi joined the protest, holding the large banner 'SIR-attack on Democracy,' and stood beside her daughter and Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi. Other leaders like Pramod Tiwari, Manickam Tagore, also joined in.
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Bihar polls: SC to hear pleas challenging ECI's SIR exercise on August 12,
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the Association for Democratic Reforms, told the apex court about the poll panel's statement that 65 lakh persons have not submitted the enumeration forms during the SIR process as they are either dead or have permanently shifted elsewhere.
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INDIA bloc continues protest against Bihar SIR; display posters with caric
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The protests by INDIA bloc MPs have been protesting against the voter roll revision on since the commencement of the monsoon session on July 21 both in an out of Parliament.
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Congress MP Manickam Tagore mocks Election Commission with 'YES SIR' carto
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The cartoon shared by Congress MP portrays a man labelled "EC" dressed in uniform and shackled, holding what resembles an EVM (Electronic Voting Machine), with a speech bubble saying "YES SIR." The tweet was captioned with a single, sharp hashtag: #SIR, a clear reference to the recent allega
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Bihar SIR: "Election Commission has become puppet commission," alleges Tej
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Speaking to reporters here, Yadav said, "The SIR process is almost complete, but the way this process has been completed, the level of rigging that has taken place is probably unprecedented. We have repeatedly urged the Election Commission to ensure that the voter list is impartial... Wha
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Both houses adjourned amid Opposition protests; Lok Sabha to meet at 1 pm,
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The Upper house met briefly at 11 AM today before being adjourned amid Opposition's sloganeering. Similarly in the lower house, Opposition MPs protested against the Bihar SIR, raising slogans against the exercise.
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Over 7.24 crore voters submitted forms in Bihar SIR, reflecting 91.69% par
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The Commission described the SIR as a "massive and successful citizen participation effort" across the state, aimed at enhancing the accuracy of the electoral rolls ahead of upcoming assembly elections.
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"Citizenship politicised and camouflaged": Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Bihar
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar, Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Sunday sharpened his party's stance, stating that the core issue of citizenship has been "politicised and camouflaged."
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"50 years since Emergency, but Congress ideology has not changed": Sudhans
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Sunday criticised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on the Election Commission, saying they reflect an unchanged "ideology" even 50 years after the Emergency.
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Bihar SIR exercise uncovers 35 lakh untraced voters, raises concern over e
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
The massive scale of untraced electors in Bihar has prompted questions about what the national SIR might uncover across India's electoral landscape. Political parties accross the spectrum have repeatedly raised issues regarding the purity of the electoral roll, especially the addition of vot
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"Exercise done to exclude voters": TMC leader Sushmita Dev hits out at Cen
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Dev termed it a "match fixing" between ECI and BJP and an attempt to "exclude" voters rather than include them.
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