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BJP wants to remove names of 1.5 crore voters in West Bengal: Mamata Baner
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Stepping up her attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with assembly polls in West Bengal months away, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged the opposition party in the state wants to remove the names of 1.5 crore voters.
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Telangana to set national benchmark in electoral roll purification: CEC Gy
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Referring to Bihar, Kumar said the massive SIR exercise had been carried out flawlessly, enabling around 75 million voters to participate in the recent Assembly elections. He said the process recorded zero complaints, zero re-polling and zero recounting, and congratulated Bihar's BLOs for
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"Completely false": Jairam Ramesh dismisses allegations levelled at Congre
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh on Sunday harshly criticised the Modi government over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue, saying that the allegations that were levelled in the Parliament that the Congress has not given any suggestions to the Election Commission regarding
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CEC Gyanesh Kumar offers prayers at Bhagyalakshmi Temple in Hyderabad
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Saturday offered prayers at the Bhagyalakshmi Temple in Hyderabad.
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"SIR needed to remove double and dead voters... EC ensuring fair polls": U
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Murugan's remarks come after the Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer announced on Friday that the EC has dropped the names of 97.37 lakh voters from the draft electoral rolls at the end of the first phase of SIR in the state.
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"Astonishing": P Chidambaram raises alarm over deletions in Tamil Nadu dra
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Rajya Sabha MP P Chidambaram on Friday raised concerns about the voter list in Tamil Nadu, noting that 66,44,881 individuals lack addresses. He acknowledged the removal of 26,32,672 deceased persons and 3,39,278 duplicate entries, but stressed the need to focus on those without addresses.
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More than 97 lakh electors removed from ECI's draft SIR roll in Tamil Nadu
Updated : 3 months ago IST
The Election Commission of India on Friday released the draft electoral roll for Tamil Nadu, after collecting 5,43,76,755 enumeration forms of voters across the state. The Election Commission in Tamil Nadu has deleted 97,37,831 electors from the list due to being deceased, having shifted/
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AAP moves court alleging result manipulation in Ashok Vihar MCD by-poll, n
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Calling the episode "deeply suspicious," Bharadwaj said an election petition was filed in the Rohini Court on Wednesday, which has admitted the plea and issued notices to the Election Commission and the BJP candidate. The matter is scheduled to be heard on December 24.
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P Chidambaram calls Congress committee members to go house to house and ve
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Highlighting the voter deletion in Sivagangai district and Pudukkottai district in Tamil Nadu during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday called party's booth committee members to verify the final voter list by visiting do
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Bills passed in Winter Session will make India 'Viksit Bharat', says Union
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday emphasised that the bills passed in the Winter Session of Parliament will play a major role in taking India towards the dream of "Viksitr Bharat." He further stated that the discussions on "Vande Mataram" have stirred the spirit
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Kerala draft electoral roll to be published on December 23, says CEO Ratha
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Kerala Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U. Kelkar announced that Kerala has achieved 100% digitisation of the enumeration forms under the SIR process, and mentioned that the draft of the state electoral roll will be published on December 23.
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UP: Senior Deputy Election Commissioner reviews SIR campaign in Prayagraj
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Manish Garg, Senior Deputy Election Commissioner, GOI, inspected the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) campaign in Prayagraj city of Uttar Pradesh. Garg said that the SIR work is almost complete, and any remaining gaps are being filled in the meantime.
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