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"ECI ensure free and fair elections": Digvijay Singh backs Rahul Gandhi's
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Rajya Sabha MP raised questions on the poll panel over the availability of voter lists and alleged that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had access to them while the Congress did not receive the details.
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Bihar polls: Law doesn't require sharing list of people missing from elect
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Responding on the allegations by NGO Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) that over 65 lakh names had been deleted from Bihar's draft electoral rolls without transparency and without disclosure of whether the deletions related to deceased persons, migrants, or other categories, ECI sa
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"SIR is conspiracy of government": TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha slams Centre
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The remarks came amids the Supreme Court today asked the poll panel to file its response by August 9 on a fresh application of an NGO seeking disclosure of data of voters who were not included in the Bihar draft electoral roll after SIR.
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Rahul Gandhi's "atom bomb" threat against poll panel has "no power", he ke
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday targeted Rahul Gandhi over his allegations relating to the Election Commission, saying that they are waiting for the Congress leader to explode the "atom bomb" he spoke of in relation to the poll panel and that the opposition leader is in the hab
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Day one: "Zero" claims, objections to draft electoral rolls in Bihar, says
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
"From August 1 (3 PM) till August 2 (3 PM), all political parties put together, have filed 'Zero' claims and objections for the addition of the names of eligible electors and deletion of the names of ineligible electors," said the poll panel in a press note.
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Bihar polls: SC to hear pleas challenging ECI's SIR exercise on August 12,
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the Association for Democratic Reforms, told the apex court about the poll panel's statement that 65 lakh persons have not submitted the enumeration forms during the SIR process as they are either dead or have permanently shifted elsewhere.
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"Ironic ECI not recognising election card given by them": CPI's Annie Raja
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The CPI leader's remarks come after the Supreme Court allowed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to continue its exercise while also asking them to consider accepting certain other documents from voters. Earlier, the poll panel had released a non-exhaustive list of 11 documents which wil
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Initial phase of Bihar SIR completed, says ECI
Updated : 10 months, 4 weeks ago IST
"The initial phase of SIR, during which Enumeration forms were to be printed and distributed, is almost complete with the forms having been made available to all the electors who were available," read a statement from the poll panel.
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"Election Commission behaving like BJP cell...": RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Yadav said that the ECI has totally become "one-sided" and is favouring the BJP, as he claimed that the poll panel has changed its rule regarding meetings with delegations.
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EC becoming Modi's Commission, says RJD's Tejashwi Yadav as poll panel pos
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Attacking the poll panel for not clarifying the doubts of political parties, Yadav told ANI, "Two days after the (SIR) notification itself, we have asked the Election Commission that our mahagathbandan, the alliance, wants to meet with you, a delegation wants to meet with you. Though the sad
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Procedure will reject people who visit their homes only during festivals:
Updated : 11 months ago IST
The Election Commission has started its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) to verify the eligibility of electors in each constituency ahead of Bihar elections, fulfilling its mandate under Article 326 of the Constitution, according to an official statement from the poll panel.
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Rahul Gandhi demands EC publish voter rolls, release all post-5 pm CCTV f
Updated : 11 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has called upon the Election Commission to publish consolidated, digital, machine-readable voter rolls for the most recent elections to the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabhas of all states, including Maharashtra, saying that "telling the truth" will protect poll panel's
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