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ADR gets award from Maharshtra state election commission
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 27 (ANI): The State Election Commission (SEC) of Maharashtra on Saturday awarded the first 'Democracy Award' in the category of "Increasing Citizens' Participation in Electoral Process (Dissemination of information about contesting candidates to make the v
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Mamata writes to PM, bats for electoral reforms including state funding of
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 26 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to implement electoral reforms aimed at preventing corruption and criminality in the polls.
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Mamata writes to PM Modi, urges to call all-party meeting on public fundin
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Howrah (West Bengal) [India], July 25 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to call an all-party meeting to discuss public funding of Indian elections while pressing the need for electoral reforms.
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Patkura polls: BJD demands CCTVs, micro-observers for sensitive booths
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], July 19 (ANI): Alleging that BJP is likely to capture booths and resort to violence to terrorise voters, Biju Janata Da (BJD) on Friday wrote to Odisha's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Surendra Kumar demanding deployment of adequate security forces, webcasting,
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BJP capitalist party : Trinamool Congress
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 9 (ANI): The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday alleged that BJP is the "most capitalist party" in the world and said that 95 per cent of the electoral bonds funding went to the party.
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PM Modi cannot beat KCR in Telangana: Asaduddin Owaisi
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 6 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) lawmaker Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot defeat electorally Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao as the latter is an equally staunch Hindu.
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Jamaican PM congratulates Modi on electoral victory
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 5 (ANI): Jamaican premier Andrew Michael Holness on Thursday made a congratulatory phone call to his Indian counterpart Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the emphatic victory of BJP-led NDA government in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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Mamta Banerjee flags off Jagannath Yatra
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kolkata [India], July 4 (ANI): Appearing to play the Hindu card in the aftermath of electoral debacle, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday flagged off the Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra which will end on July 11.
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Opposition parties reject simultaneous polls, demand ballot paper back
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): Opposition parties on Wednesday rejected government's call for "One Nation, One Election" and demanded that the ballot papers must be brought back to restore the faith of people in country's electoral system.
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We want free and fair elections, says TMC MP Derek O'Brien
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): We want free and fair elections, said Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien on Wednesday.
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14 Opposition parties give notice over discussion in RS on 'need for elect
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): As many as 14 Opposition parties, including Congress, TMC, NCP, AAP and CPI, have given notice over discussion in Rajya Sabha tomorrow under Rule 176 on the 'need for electoral reforms in the country'.
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Mayawati announces to contest all elections - big and small - alone
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 24 (ANI): BSP chief Mayawati on Tuesday said that her party would contest all elections - big and small -alone in the future, which marks the abrupt end of nascent electoral bonhomie between her and Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party (SP).
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