Union Minister and Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president G Kishan Reddy has written to the Election Commission and Chief Electoral Officer of the state alleging "electoral malpractices by the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) candidates and their workers" during voting for assembly pol
With less than 12 hours to go for the Telangana Assembly polls, the Chief Electoral Officer for the state, Vikas Raj, on Wednesday said about 12,000 critical polling stations have been identified in the state where additional forces will be deployed.
The party also flagged for the attention of the Election Commission the tampering of postal ballots by the District Electoral Officer in Pallaghat in Madhya Pradesh seeking immediate action against the concerned officer.
The action was taken following the complaint of Congress party accusing the Balaghat District Election Officer of opening postal ballot votes before the counting day. The suspended official has been identified as Himmat Singh, who is posted as a tehsildar.
As the assembly election results day nears, Mizoram ramps up preparations for counting of votes. Nearly 4000 personnel will be involved in the counting of votes of Mizoram assembly polls on December 3, said Mizoram Chief Electoral Officer Madhup Vyas.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Chief Electoral Officer to reconsider its decision and allow disbursement of Rythu Bandhu assistance to the farmers in the state which was withdrawn in a letter dated November 27.
"There was no discussion yet on seat sharing but yes, we had discussed that the decision on seat sharing will be taken on the basis of the elective merit (winning capacity) of the candidate at a particular seat," Ajit Pawar said.
According to the guidelines issued by the Election Commission of India, all the voters who have reached the booth premises by this time will be allowed to vote. No new person will be allowed to enter the campus after 6 p.m.
Chief Electoral Officer of Rajasthan, Praveen Gupta, said on Friday that over 3 lakh people exercised their franchise via postal ballot ahead of the Assembly elections in Rajasthan on November 25.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) intra-party polls were not transparent and ordered the party to hold new polls if it wants to retain bat as its electoral symbol.
A delegation of the TDP leaders, including Atchen Naidu, president of the state unit of the party, submitted a letter to the ECI mentioning that the District Election Officers (DEOs) and Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) are not following the ECI directions for preparing error-free ele