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Awami League banned, BNP has narrow lead over Jamaat: International Crisis
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
The International Crisis Group highlighted uncertainty surrounding the polls, including concerns about the process's credibility and the risk of violence.
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Mamata Banerjee flags "institutional overreach", voter disenfranchisement
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar raising serious objections to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.
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Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee alleges CEC Gyanesh Kumar of procedural lapses d
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
In a letter to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, she stated, "In continuation of my earlier letters, I again wish to draw your attention regarding the following two serious procedural lapses being observed during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which are resulting in und
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"Want power on strength of infiltrators' votes": BJP's Kapil Mishra slams
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"It's natural for them to have stomach aches because they want to come back to power on the strength of infiltrators' votes. A country can't elect its government with the help of infiltrators. This is like poison and cancer. The treatment for this cancer is certain and will be done," Mish
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"Population equivalent to that of several states disenfranchised": Congres
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
He told ANI that the high level of disenfranchisement was due to the rushed SIR process, which was carried out in just two or three months, and that Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi had raised concerns about it. He warned the people to get their names added to the elec
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BJP believes in good governance; TMC bothered about cuts and commissions:
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
He also raised concerns over 4,50,000 'unmapped' people in the Matua-dominated areas of Nadia and North 24 Parganas. This comes after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which has sparked fears among the Matua community about potential disenfranchisement.
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"Votes of Dalits, Muslims being cut through SIR": Congress MP Imran Masood
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
He claimed that the most affected are Dalits and Muslims, stressing that incoming reports point to large-scale curtailment of voting rights through the ongoing exercise.
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Parliament Winter Session: AAP MP Sanjay Singh moves Rule 267 motion seeki
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
"Moves a motion under Rule 267 (Notice of Motion for Suspension of rules) of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Council of States (Rajya Sabha), for the discussion on ECI's SIR: Arbitrary Deletions, BLO Deaths, Disenfranchisement Threatening Articles 14, 21, 326," Sanjay Si
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"Through SIR, they are snatching votes; next step is taking away citizensh
Updated : 6 months ago IST
Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh on Sunday levelled serious allegations against the ruling BJP-led government, claiming that the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by the Election Commission of Inidia is a deliberate attempt to disenfranch
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DMK moves Supreme Court against SIR in Tamil Nadu
Updated : 6 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The SIR and the EC orders, if not set aside, can "arbitrarily and without due process disenfranchise lakhs of voters" from electing their representatives, thereby disrupting free and fair elections and democracy in the country, which are part of the basic structure of the Constitution, sa
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SC issues notice to Centre, ECI on plea seeking voting rights to undertria
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The petition sought direction to issue guidelines to set polling stations in prisons for local prisoners and to make provision for postal ballots for prisoners lodged outside their home constituencies or states.
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"Will go among people and make sure no eligible voter loses their right to
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Mir stated that the Congress party is not against the SIR but is against its sudden implementation in Bihar. He added that if the Election Commission wanted to conduct SIR, they should have conducted it nationwide just after the Lok Sabha elections.
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