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"Election Commission runs like PM Modi's puppet": Cong leader Pawan Khera
Updated : 11 months ago IST
"We will talk about the Election Commission... Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and various leaders of the INDIA bloc are continuously discussing these issues. But the Election Commission runs like PM Modi's puppet," Khera told the reporters during his visit to Bihar.
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Congress' demand for digital electoral rolls "not legally tenable", alread
Updated : 11 months ago IST
While acknowledging that the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has been demanding digital electoral rolls for the past seven months, ECI sources said that this is part of a Congress strategy spanning over eight years. They added that this fact "appears to have been sele
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"PM Modi's leadership inspired me": Gujarat's 24-year-old Sarpanch pledges
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Twenty-four-year-old Khushali Kanjibhai Rabari, the newly elected Sarpanch of Kada village in Visnagar taluka of Mehsana district, has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inspired her to enter into the public service. She entered the electoral fray during her final year of nursing stu
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As part of broader electoral reforms, Election Commission initiates procee
Updated : 11 months ago IST
The decision was announced by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, targeting parties that have failed to contest even a single election since 2019 and whose offices could not be physically located.
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Electoral rolls prepared transparently; copies shared with recognised part
Updated : 11 months ago IST
With Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi alleging that the voter list grew by eight per cent in just five months in Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's constituency, Chief Electoral Office Maharashtra has rejected the allegations and stated that electoral rolls are prep
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"Lack of knowledge of electoral process": Shaina NC hits out at Rahul Gand
Updated : 11 months ago IST
"Rahul Gandhi should be happy when more people register their names in the voter list and when more and more people come out to vote... The work done by the Election Commission is to register new voters. Your (Rahul Gandhi) repeated baseless allegations make one thing clear: you lack the kno
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ECI to conduct Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar
Updated : 11 months ago IST
In an official statement, the poll body said that the objective of an intensified revision is to ensure that the names of all eligible citizens are included in the Electoral Roll (ER) to enable them to exercise their franchise, no ineligible voter is included in the electoral rolls and also
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ECI says Maha Assembly polls are as per electoral laws, invites Rahul Gand
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Terming the elections strictly as per electoral laws passed by the Parliament, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has invited the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, for an interaction to discuss the issues related to his allegation on the Maharashtra Assembly Election he
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ECI mulling intensive house-to-house verification during Electoral Rolls r
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
Election Commission of India (ECI) is contemplating an intensive house-to-house verification during the upcoming electoral roll revision before Bihar Assembly Polls in order to make the Electoral Rolls completely robust and free of any kind of errors. Such intensive and rigorous revision
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Counting to begin for Nilambur bypoll at 8 am on June 23
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
Chief Electoral Officer, Dr Ratan U Kelkar, said that the strong room will be opened at 7.30 am in the presence of the candidates' agents, and the counting of votes will begin at 8 am
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"One from whom answer was needed, is destroying evidence": Rahul Gandhi qu
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
The Leader of Opposition raised concerns about the integrity of the electoral process, citing the destruction of evidence as a potential indicator of election rigging. He warned that a fixed election would be "poison for democracy," highlighting the need for a free and fair electoral process
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ECI marks several firsts in Bye-polls: Mobile Deposit Facility; Upgraded V
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
The Election Commission of India (ECI) successfully implemented several new electoral initiatives during bye-polls in five Assembly Constituencies across Gujarat, Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal. Key reforms included mobile deposit facilities at polling booths, faster voter turnout reporting
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