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Sunil Arora retires as CEC, supervised conduct of 2019 LS election, severa
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), April 12(ANI): Sunil Arora, who demitted office on Monday after serving as Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) for over two years, supervised the conduct of 2019 Lok Sabha elections and also several state elections during his tenure.
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Sushil Chandra appointed new Chief Election Commissioner
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], 12 April (ANI): Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra was on Monday appointed as the new Chief Election Commissioner. He replaces Sunil Arora who has retired.
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NHRC issues notice on election process flouting Covid guidelines
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought for an Action Taken Report (ATR) from the Chief Election Commissioner and the Union Home Secretary over alleged Covid guidelines violation, while the electoral process is still going on in several St
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EVM in BJP candidate's car: CPI MP says incident brought autonomy of EC in
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): CPI MP Binoy Viswam wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner over the controversial incident involving an election official with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) who was found travelling in the vehicle of the BJP party member who is also contesting the elec
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Nilam Sawhney to be new State Election Commissioner of Andhra Pradesh
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], March 27 (ANI): Retired IAS officer Nilam Sawhney will be the new State Election Commissioner of Andhra Pradesh. Her first task is expected to conduct Mandal Parishad and Zilla Parishad polls in the state.
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Andhra Pradesh SEC says won't hold MPTC, ZPTC elections due to insufficien
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], March 24 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar on Wednesday said that the State Election Commission led by him will not be announcing the schedule for Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituency (MPTC) and Zilla Parishad Te
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Imran-led government demands resignation of chief election commissioner, w
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 16 (ANI): After a drubbing by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) alliance in the recent Senate polls, the Imran Khan-led government on Monday has called for the resignation of the chief election commissioner and the reconstitution of the Election Commission o
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Election commission files FIR against fake news about EVM hacking
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 11 (ANI): Taking stern action against fake news, the Election Commission (EC) of India on Thursday lodged an FIR against the fake news about EVM hacking attributed to Former Chief Election Commissioner of India TS Krishnamurthy circulated over the internet.
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Andhra Pradesh municipal elections: SEC inspects polling arrangements in V
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], March 10 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar visited the polling booth at Bishop Gracy High School and inspected the polling arrangements on Wednesday.
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Goa SEC submitted annual report on elections to Governor
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], March 6 (ANI): Goa State Election Commissioner C R Garg, IAS presented the report published by the Commission on elections to the local bodies conducted during the year 2020 to Governor of Goa Bhagat Singh Koshyari.
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Assembly Elections 2021: 18.68 crore electors to choose 824 MLAs in 4 stat
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 26 (ANI): A total of 824 assembly constituencies shall be going for polls in four states--Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam-- and the Union Territory of Puducherry, said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora on Friday.
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Overall 81.78 pc polling took place in four phases, says Andhra Election C
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], February 22 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar on Monday said that overall 81.78 per cent polling took place in all four phases in the gram panchayat elections.
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