The polling for the by-polls will take place on December 5 and the votes will be counted on December 8, coinciding with the result dates of the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey chaired the national conference of PwD Icons for accessible elections.
After Congress attacks the Election Commission of India (ECI) for separately announcing the dates of the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh polls, BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said that the grand old party had started making excuses to deny defeat even before the elections.
The petitioner/DK Shivakumar contends that the ED in the impugned proceedings is re-investigating the same offence which it had already investigated in a previous case lodged by it in ECIR 2018. The impugned proceedings have been initiated in complete abuse of process of law and mala fide ex
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said that social media platforms do self-proclaim that they have content display policies but they also have the "algorithm power" in play. "More early or deeper red flagging of fake news based on known modus operandi and genres.
The Election Commission of India is hosting a two-day international conference on the theme 'Role, Framework and Capacity of Election Management Bodies' at New Delhi. The ECI leads the Cohort on Election Integrity - which was established as a follow-on to the 'Summit for Democracy' held in D
The ECI leads the Cohort on Election Integrity - which was established as a follow on to the 'Summit for Democracy'. It invited UNDP and International IDEA, apart from EMBs and Government counterparts dealing with the conduct of elections worldwide.
This comes in response to the complaint by TRS to the ECI alleging that the BJP candidate had illegally deposited money into the bank accounts of BJP leaders to distribute to the voters.
The Minister has been given time till Saturday to tender an explanation to the ECI regarding the speech which is violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). Reddy said that welfare schemes in the state will be stopped if the people do not vote for the TRS' car symbol.