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"We were humiliated", says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee after meeting EC
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Trinamool Congress leader and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that she was humiliated by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar during their meeting on Monday. ECI sources said that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar responded to the queries of CM Mamata Banerjee, who led
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Mamata Banerjee raised false allegations and misbehaved, CEC responded to
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar responded to the queries of Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who led a party delegation to EC, and explained to them that rule of law shall prevail in the SIR process and anybody taking law into their own h
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While Rahul claims voter list manipulation, Karnataka govt uses it for cas
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Countering Rahul Gandhi's claim of voter list manipulation, sources in the Election Commission of India (ECI) pointed out on Friday that the Congress-led Karnataka government itself relies on electoral rolls for its crucial caste census policy.
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ECI claims Rahul Gandhi yet to respond to June EC letter responding to Mah
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The EC said the Congress leader has not responded to an official invitation extended to him nearly two months ago. "Why? Is it because his media statements were baseless?" ECI sources asked.
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Tejashwi Yadav’s name is in Bihar draft electoral rolls with EPIC number u
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav's name is there in the Draft Electoral Rolls published as per Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and no records have been found for second EPIC number yet, Election Commission sources said on Saturday, noting that it is quite likely that the second EPIC (Ele
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"Wait for verdict of HC": ECI sources on Rahul Gandhi's "cheating" allegat
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Hours after Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of indulging in "cheating" during the voter list revision process in a constituency in Karnataka, poll body sources on Thursday said to wait for the verdict of the High Court re
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Political Parties should appoint more BLAs now rather than complaining lat
Updated : 8 months, 3 weeks ago IST
According to ECI sources, the Special Intensive Revision in Bihar is proceeding smoothly as planned, strictly following orders issued on June 24, 2025. The Commission has dismissed any misinformation being circulated about the process.
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ECI defers meeting with multi-party delegation over Special Intensive Revi
Updated : 8 months, 4 weeks ago IST
According to ECI sources, "An email was received on June 30 from a legal counsel of AICC, seeking an urgent appointment with the Election Commission for July 2, regarding SIR of Bihar on behalf of many political parties, by representing himself as a counsel of the multi-party delegation."
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Congress' demand for digital electoral rolls "not legally tenable", alread
Updated : 9 months ago IST
While acknowledging that the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has been demanding digital electoral rolls for the past seven months, ECI sources said that this is part of a Congress strategy spanning over eight years. They added that this fact "appears to have been sele
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ECI mulling intensive house-to-house verification during Electoral Rolls r
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
Election Commission of India (ECI) is contemplating an intensive house-to-house verification during the upcoming electoral roll revision before Bihar Assembly Polls in order to make the Electoral Rolls completely robust and free of any kind of errors. Such intensive and rigorous revision
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Sharing video footage of polling stations during voting day breaches voter
Updated : 9 months, 1 week ago IST
Amid a demand for making available video or CCTV footage of the webcasting of the polling stations during the poll day, EC sources said on Saturday that it is "entirely contrary to the privacy and security concerns of the voters" and sharing of the footage would leave both, the elector, who
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Instead of writing to poll panel, Rahul Gandhi going to media seeking answ
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Election Commission had written a detailed letter to Congress in December last year rejecting its "misleading" claims about voter turnout data in Maharashtra polls and, instead of writing to the poll panel directly, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi keeps speaking and writing to media seek
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