The Election Commission of India on Tuesday directed the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer to defer the house-to-house survey under the Rural Housing Scheme in 6 districts because of the Model Code of Conduct for the upcoming bye-elections.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed the Jharkhand State Government to remove Anurag Gupta from his position as the Acting Director General of Police (DGP) with immediate effect, sources told ANI.
Assembly elections in Maharashtra will be held in a single phase on November 20, the Election Commission of India announced on Tuesday (October 15, 2024). With this, the political parties have begun gearing up for an election that will be unprecedented in many ways.
The plea was filed by Priya Mishra and Vikas Bansal through advocate Narendra Mishra who said that the Election Commission of India (ECI) declared the election (of the State Legislative Assemblies through Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) based on accuracy.
CEC Kumar also explained that EVMs had three-layered security and signatures of political party representatives were taken to ensure transparency. "When a machine is commissioned, the battery is put on that day, this is done five or six days before voting. .. even on the battery there are
The voting for these two constituencies will be held next month on November 13. With the announcement of the poll date, the Model Code of Conduct came into effect in these two constituencies.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Arvind Sawant raised concern on the "arrangement" after the Election Commission of India announced the poll schedule for Maharashtra on Tuesday.
The assembly elections in Jharkhand will be held in two phases on November 13 and November 20 and votes will be counted on November 23, as per the Election Commission of India.
The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Centre and Election Commission of India on a plea seeking direction that promise of freebies, made by political parties during the run-up to elections, be declared as bribes.
The poll body officials have called for a press conference at 3.30 pm in the Plenary Hall, Vigyan Bhawan, Delhi to make the announcement of the schedule for the assembly polls in Maharashtra and Jharkhand.
Reacting to the Haryana assembly elections, senior Congress party leader Harish Rawat said that the people of Haryana wanted the Congress to win and that the BJP has succeeded in polarising in the name of caste.
BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia on Wednesday hit out at Congress after its leaders described Haryana assembly elections as "totally unexpected, completely surprising, counter-intuitive and against ground-reality, saying that the Election Commission of India has made every citizen pro