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Sonia Gandhi opposes revision plea in electoral roll case, calls allegatio
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
The matter is now scheduled to be heard on February 21. The revision petition has been filed by advocate Vikas Tripathi, challenging the Magistrate Court's September 2025 order, which had dismissed his complaint seeking registration of a case and investigation into alleged irregularities
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Election Commission extends period for filing claims, objections to March
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
According to an ECI letter dated February 5, the extension follows the publication of draft electoral rolls on January 6, 2026. Originally, the window for filing claims and objections was scheduled to close on February 6. However, under Rule 12 of the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960,
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Awami League banned, BNP has narrow lead over Jamaat: International Crisis
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
The International Crisis Group highlighted uncertainty surrounding the polls, including concerns about the process's credibility and the risk of violence.
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"Not just in Bengal, even in UP": SP MP Awadhesh Prasad backs Mamata Baner
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Speaking to ANI, Awadhesh Prasad said the issue was not confined to West Bengal alone and had wider national implications, particularly for Dalits, backward classes, minorities and the PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) sections.
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SC issues notice in West Bengal SIR dispute, assures protection of voters'
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
The Court noted that the entire procedure is governed by a strict timeline, which had already been extended by ten days, and that only four days now remain. "We cannot grant the luxury of one more week," the Chief Justice observed, while emphasising that "every problem has a solution so t
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Mamata Banerjee arrives at Supreme Court as apex court hears SIR matter
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Amid the row over the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls in the poll-bound West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday arrived at the Supreme Court as the apex court will hear the SIR matter today. The CM will appear before the Court in this regard.
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Alive citizens are falsely marked dead: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee sla
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"Today, at Banga Bhawan in Delhi's Chanakyapuri, I met victims of the deeply flawed SIR process, families who have lost loved ones and citizens who, despite being alive, have been falsely marked "dead" and erased from the electoral rolls. Their testimonies were heartbreaking. In a democra
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"We were humiliated", says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee after meeting EC
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Trinamool Congress leader and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that she was humiliated by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar during their meeting on Monday. ECI sources said that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar responded to the queries of CM Mamata Banerjee, who led
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"Will take up LoP Suvendu Adhikari's complaint with state govt, CEO": WB G
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Speaking to reporters, Bose said, "That is the message (that the state government is not cooperating with the LoP) which is given by the Leader of Opposition, who came with a large number of MLAs. They have a complaint, which I will take up with the state government, the Chief Electoral O
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BJP is pursuing politics of hatred in country: AAP MP Sanjay Singh
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"At the same time, pictures of his killers sitting in court and laughing were also going viral. That was an image from that era in which Nathuram Godse and his associates were present. There was no remorse on their faces, instead they were laughing," pointed out the AAP MP.
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'Drama' between BRS and Congress: N Ramchander Rao on phone tapping case
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Speaking to ANI, Rao alleged that several BJP leaders' phones were tapped and cases were filed against them, claiming that the BRS misused phone tapping to secure electoral gains.
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Mamata Banerjee raised false allegations and misbehaved, CEC responded to
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar responded to the queries of Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who led a party delegation to EC, and explained to them that rule of law shall prevail in the SIR process and anybody taking law into their own h
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