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Bihar Elections 2025: Security heightened across state as counting to begi
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
The security personnel arrived for their election duty at various places, including Patna, Gayaji and several other places.
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"Election was like an obstacle race": CPI(M-L) leader Dipankar Bhattachary
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPI(ML)L) leader Dipankar Bhattacharya expressed confidence in the vote-counting process and said that he hopes the Election Commission will ensure a fair and clean vote-counting process.
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Bihar vote count to settle NDA again or Mahagathbandhan; Jan Suraaj hopes
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), the two-phase Bihar polls recorded a historic voter turnout of 67.13 per cent- the highest since 1951 - with zero repolls across the state's 38 districts, a testament to what the Commission called a "successful" election. The voting per
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"Successful Bihar elections - highest voter turnout since 1951, zero repol
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
"Zero repolls in Bihar Assembly Elections, 2025 • No re-polls requested by 2,616 candidates • No re-polls requested by 12 recognised political parties," the EC said in the note.
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JD(U) hits back at RJD's Sunil Singh, says party "preparing excuses" ahead
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
JD(U) leader Rajeev Ranjan Prasad accused the RJD of anticipating defeat and attempting to cast doubt on the credibility of the election process after RJD's Sunil Singh issued a warning to poll officials.
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"Public not going to hand over power to Tejashwi": JD(U)'s Neeraj Kumar pr
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
"Tomorrow is the date set by the Election Commission for counting of votes. The public mood is clear: they are not going to hand over power to Tejashwi Yadav. Nitish Kumar and the NDA will have a landslide victory. We will celebrate the victory. We will uphold the pride of Bihar," Kumar t
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Bihar polls: Model Code of Conduct extended till Nov 16 in Patna, ban on v
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has extended the Model Code of Conduct in the Patna district till November 16, to maintain law and order following the counting of votes for the Bihar polls on November 14, a statement by the District Administration said on Thursday.
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TMC accuses ECI of "favouring" BJP by amending BLA's appointment criteria
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday accused the Election Commission of "favouring" Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by amending the rules for appointment of Booth-Level Agents (BLAs), amid the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.
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Supreme Court to begin final hearing in Shiv Sena dispute case from Januar
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
The Thackeray faction petition assailed the Election Commission's February 2023 order, which awarded the party name and symbol to the faction led by Eknath Shinde, following the split in the Shiv Sena post the 2022 political crisis.
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CCTV recordings from 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Delhi destroyed as per ru
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
The Election Commission of India (ECI) informed the Delhi High Court that CCTV and video recordings from polling stations during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Delhi have been destroyed and are no longer held by District Election Officers (DEOs), in accordance with updated guidelines. Read More
Second phase Bihar polls sees record 68.76% voter turnout
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The second phase of polling in Bihar saw a record voter turnout of 68.76 per cent, the highest in the history of the state.
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Bihar assembly polls conclude with historic 66.91% voter turnout; Exit pol
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Voting for the second phase of Bihar polls concluded with a record voter turnout of 68.80 per cent (approximate), with the highest voting of 78.82 per cent in Katihar district, according to data from the Election Commission.
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