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Awami League banned, BNP has narrow lead over Jamaat: International Crisis
Updated : 1 month, 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 : 1 month, 1 week 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 : 2 months 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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"Population equivalent to that of several states disenfranchised": Congres
Updated : 2 months 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 : 2 months, 3 weeks 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 : 3 months 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 : 3 months, 1 week 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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SC issues notice to Centre, ECI on plea seeking voting rights to undertria
Updated : 5 months 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 : 5 months, 1 week 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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Opposition wraps up 'Voter Adhikaar Yatra' in Bihar, highlights "disenfran
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The allegations of discrepancies in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise carried out by the Election Commission (EC) in Bihar ahead of the forthcoming assembly elections were levelled by Leader of Opposition (LoP) Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, who pledged that the opposition would not
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"Mass disenfranchisement is serious issue": P Chidambaram slams ECI over B
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Chidambaram said that mass disenfranchisement is a serious issue and questioned whether any inquiry was done by the ECI to ascertain the "permanently migrated" status of enrolled voters in Bihar.
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Kharge accuses Centre, EC of disenfranchising poor and minorities
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday accused the Election Commission and the Modi government of orchestrating large-scale voter deletions targeting the poor, Dalits, and minorities. Citing reports of mass removals in BJP-ruled states, Kharge alleged a systematic attempt to undermi
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