Election Commission of India
- India
PM, Shah, CEC Gyanesh Kumar are deshdrohis, resign now: Rahul
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday, September 24, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar were “deshdrohis” (traitors) as they “destroyed” India’s…
- Delhi
Gyanesh, it’s done bro: Congress petitions for CEC’s removal
New Delhi: The Indian Youth Congress on Thursday launched an online petition demanding the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar following a report by the Indian Express on internal objections by…
- India
‘Dimagi Naxals’ targeting CEC: Himanta to Gyanesh’s rescue
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday asserted that the chief election commissioner can’t take decisions without consulting election commissioners, alleging that the CEC was being targeted as part of…
- India
ECI sharing differing views reflects pure democracy: BJP
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday, September 23, said that reports about three election commissioners sharing differing views during official deliberations show it is functioning in a democratic manner,…
- India
Form 6 changes illegal, differences within EC serious: Ex-CEC
New Delhi: Changes to the statutory voter registration Form 6 are “absolutely wrong and illegal”, former chief election commissioner O P Rawat said on Wednesday, September 23, while describing revelations of differences…
- India
Sack CEC Gyanesh, arrest him; stop SIR immediately: Oppn
New Delhi: Expansive red flags raised by two Election Commissioners within the poll panel over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters’ list triggered a massive political storm on Wednesday, September 23,…
- India
ECI commissioners flag SIR, voter form changes; poll body denies rift
Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi have formally recorded at least 14 objections over the past 10 months against decisions taken under Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, according to…
- India
‘Shah Instigated Removal’ of voters: Congress slams ongoing SIR
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday, September 20, flagged the issue of large-scale deletions during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls being carried out by the Election Commission, alleging that…
- India
Mamata Banerjee moves SC against EC party symbol freeze
New Delhi: Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Election Commission’s decision to freeze the Trinamool Congress’ name and party symbol amid a dispute between…
- Opinions
Constitutional cost of disenfranchisement: Appraising SIR
In constitutional democracies, universal adult suffrage is neither a statutory concession nor an administrative privilege; it is the foundational bedrock of popular sovereignty. When electoral roll sanitisation transitions from an inclusive audit…
- Hyderabad
SIR: 9 months after by-poll, Jubilee Hills lost 1.79 lakh names
Hyderabad: Of the 1,79,510 electors on course to come off Jubilee Hills’ draft roll in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), as many as 1,48,859 were recorded under a single category: shifted, meaning…
- India
ECI to meet Trinamool factions today; may decide who gets name
Kolkata: As the Election Commission of India (ECI) meets separately with delegations from the two factions of the Trinamool Congress in New Delhi in the second half on Thursday, September 17, speculation…
- Hyderabad
In Karwan, 54 in 100 people excluded in SIR have Muslim names
Hyderabad: Karwan went into the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) with 3,83,190 electors. The draft roll published on August 17 carries 2,41,424, the largest surviving electorate of any Hyderabad Assembly seat. That leaves…
- Hyderabad
SIR: 59 in 100 flagged electors in Nampally carry Muslim names
Hyderabad: A total of 1,37,126 electors have been left off the draft electoral roll in the Nampally Assembly constituency under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), in a seat the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul…
- Telangana
Voters get till Oct 7 to file claims as Telangana SIR extended
Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday, September 7, extended the schedule for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Telangana for the third time, pushing the final publication…
