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"Government running from its responsibilities": Congress MP Sukhdeo Bhagat
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Congress MP Sukhdeo Bhagat on Monday demanded that the government should allow discussion on the Special Intensive Revision exercise (SIR), which is currently underway in several parts of the country, adding that treasury benches are running away from their responsibility.
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MP Youth Congress holds protest against ECI over SIR exercise in Bhopal
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The youth Congress workers staged their protest at Congress headquarters in the state capital and were heading to gheored the state election commission office but the police stopped them by barricading at Vyapam Square in the city.
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Supreme Court to hear pleas challenging SIR exercise on December 2
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on multiple petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls to December 2 (Tuesday).
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"People are panicked... Election Commission should be liberal": West Benga
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
West Bengal Minister Siddiqullah Chowdhury raised serious concerns over alleged lapses in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, claiming that flaws in the system have triggered panic among voters and are reportedly linked to multiple suicides across states.
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"Nobody can throw you out, I do not fear BJP": Mamata Banerjee slams Centr
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday lambasted the BJP over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in the state, saying "nobody can throw you (electors) out."
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Suvendu Adhikari alleges misuse of police by TMC during SIR, asks ECI to d
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Tuesday wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging violation of the "neutrality" principle and misuse of police by the TMC government during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of elector
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West Bengal: Protesters stage protest against SIR in Kolkata; Police set u
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Tensions escalated outside the Election Commission (EC) office in Kolkata on Tuesday as protesters gathered to express their opposition to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise underway in West Bengal.
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"Motivated by politics, they are pressuring EC": TMC's Kunal Ghosh on SIR
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Ghosh claimed that the EC is being misused to target genuine voters, alleging that real voters and Booth Level Officers (BLOs) are committing suicide due to harassment. He demanded that absolutely no legitimate voter be removed while insisting that no illegal names remain on the voter lis
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SC seeks ECI's response to pleas against SIR in Kerala, UP
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Supreme Court has sought the Election Commission of India's (ECI) response to a batch of pleas filed by various petitioners including the Kerala government challenging the ECI's decision to carry out Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of the voter roll in the Kerala.
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Mamata Banerjee writes to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, appeals for "halt" in SIR exe
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
In a letter written to the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on November 20, Chief Minister Banerjee claimed that the "critical gaps in training, lack of clarity on mandatory documentation and the near-impossibility of meeting voters in the midst of their livelihood schedules have
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"Our party is ready to push TMC out": BJP's Dilip Ghosh
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A delegation of the Election Commission of India arrived in Kolkata on Tuesday for a review meeting of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise underway in West Bengal.
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Kerala govt moves Supreme Court for deferment of SIR exercise until local
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The state sought deferment of the SIR until the ongoing process for Local Self-Government Institutions (LSGI) is completed. It said that conducting the SIR simultaneously with local body elections will create significant administrative complications and potentially disrupt the smooth cond
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