As Tamil Nadu goes to the polls on April 19 in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Ramanathapuram remains a crucial constituency of Tamil Nadu as the BJP stands in support of former Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, who is contesting as an independent candidate against AIADMK's Jayaperumal and K N
A bench of Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta was not convinced with advocate Prashant Bhushan's arguments to go back to election via ballot paper instead of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).
There are approximately around 1,64,000 booths in Uttar Pradesh, with nearly 20,000 of them being Muslim-majority booths, where fraudulent voting is carried out under the veil. To prevent this, the Minority Wing has prepared a strategy in collaboration with Muslim women activists.
Ahead of the voting for five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand on April 19, the state's Chief Electoral Officer, BVR Purushottam, gave details on the arrangements and said that the Indo-Nepal border will be sealed from today and cross-border movement of people will be closed till April 19.
"A lot of work has happened here. Seeing this, everyone has made up their minds in Arunachal that they will be voting for the BJP this time as well. This is confirmed. Polling is only a formality. People have already decided whom they will vote for," the Chief Minister said on Tuesday.
Ahead of Lok Sabha elections, polling teams have left for Naxal-hit regions in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, through MI-17 Chopper. Anurag Pandey, Bijapur Collector and Jitendra Yadav, Bijapur SP, assured of a peaceful voting process and safe environment for the election officials and voters.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined a plea seeking voting arrangements for about 18,000 people displaced internally due to the ethnic clash in Manipur for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat will witness a high-stakes battle in the first phase of the General Elections scheduled to be held on April 19, with Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai facing DMK leader Ganapathy P Rajkumar and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam AIADMK's Singai Ramachand
Speaking to ANI, Sub Inspector, Govind Khating said, "The objective of this awareness campaign is to encourage the voters to fulfil their duty to keep our democracy alive. The voting which is going to take place on April 19 in the upcoming polls will be a victory for democracy. We have deplo