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"Strict orders to ensure level-playing field": Chief Election Commissioner
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar praised the efforts of officials, security forces, and others for ensuring peaceful Delhi elections and emphasized strict action on any violations to maintain fairness in the process.
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"Everyone must vote": Election Commissioner Sukhbir Sandhu casts his vote
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Polling for 70 assembly seats began on Wednesday morning in Delhi, as voters cast their ballots for the 8th Assembly amid tight security. Voting commenced at 7.00 am and will continue till 6.00 pm, officials said.
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Assam CM hits back at Rahul Gandhi over his remarks
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
"Rahul Gandhi's call for a transparent selection of Election Commissioners involving the Chief Justice of India is ironic, given that during Congress rule, appointments were made solely by the ruling government without any transparency," Sarma posted on X (formerly Twitter).
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Rahul Gandhi questions CJI's exclusion from panel appointing Election Comm
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
"The rules have been changed. The Election Commissioner used to be chosen by the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and the Chief Justice. The Chief Justice was removed from that committee. This is a question to the Prime Minister, why was the Chief Justice removed from the comm
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Kejriwal targets Election Commission, accuses it of "surrendering to BJP"
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
"... Our revolutionaries were hanged so that there would be democracy in the country, elections would be fair. But the way the Election Commission has surrendered before the BJP today, it seems as if the Election Commission does not exist. This is raising a very big question. It is absolu
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16th Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla passes away
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
The Election Commission of India on Saturday observed mourning following the passing away of former Chief Election Commissioner Navin B. Chawla, who died today in New Delhi.
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AAP's Atishi and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann meet Chief Election Commissioner
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Addressing the media on the meeting, the CM said that discussions were made on the condition of the Yamuna water issue.
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"It is an act of water terrorism": Delhi CM Atishi writes to CEC
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi writes to the Chief Election Commissioner, blaming Haryana for the increased ammonia levels in Yamuna and requesting an urgent meeting to discuss its impact on the Delhi elections.
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"A lot of discussions held on how poll bodies must conduct fair elections,
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
"A lot of discussion was held on technology - there are opportunities as well as challenges regarding social media, AI and cyber security. All of these were discussed. So, a Delhi declaration was signed...All election management bodies here decided to constitute a working group so that they
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Anti-pollution measures similar to GRAP needed to combat social media poll
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Friday highlighted the need for a clean social media space and said that the entire social media space is polluted. He added that if we have environmental pollution outside, equally serious social media pollution we have inside and that needs anti-p
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CEC Rajiv Kumar sounds caution against fake narratives, points to role of
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Sounding a note of caution against fake narratives which erode trust in electoral processes, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar has said that such narratives are typically timed at crucial junctures of the election process to target its very vitals.
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Arvind Kejriwal writes to CEC, urges action against irregularities in vote
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Former Delhi Chief Minister Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner regarding allegations of irregularities in the voter list in the New Delhi Assembly constituency ahead of the assembly polls in the national capital.
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