Election Commission
- India
Days before it announces polls, EC to meet top MHA officials
New Delhi: Days before it announces schedule for the Lok Sabha polls, the top brass of the Election Commission has called senior Home ministry officials to review security preparedness for the democratic exercise.…
- Kolkata
Central agencies must not impede electoral process: TMC tells EC
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress on Monday urged the Election Commission to ensure that central agencies must not impede the electoral process. The TMC delegation also appealed to the commission to make sure…
- Telangana
Telangana: Election Commission prepares action plan for LS polls
Hyderabad: The Telangana State Election Officer C Partha Sarthi conducted a second meeting in connection with the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections here on Friday. The senior election officer asked the enforcement…
- Pakistan
PTI to hold intra-party elections on March 3
Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday announced to hold intra-party polls on March 3. Previous intra-party polls were declared unconstitutional by the Election Commission of Pakistan and the order was upheld by…
- India
EC flagged its concern in SC in 2019 on impact of electoral bonds scheme on transparency
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) had, in 2019, flagged its concerns in the Supreme Court on the changes made in several laws relating to political funding to facilitate the electoral bonds…
- India
Don’t eat if your parents don’t vote for me: Shiv Sena MLA tells kids
Mumbai: An MLA of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena has courted controversy by asking children not to eat for two days if their parents don’t vote for him. Kalamnuri MLA Santosh Bangar’s…
- India
EC has stabbed democracy in the back: Raut on poll body’s order on NCP
Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday alleged that the Election Commission has stabbed democracy in the back through its decision to recognise Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s faction…
- India
Do not use children in poll campaigning: EC to political parties
New Delhi: Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission on Monday asked political parties not to use children in campaigning “in any form whatsoever”, including for distribution of posters and pamphlets…
- India
2024 LS polls: 96 cr citizens, including 47 cr women, eligible to cast vote
New Delhi: Over 96 crore people, including 47 crore women, are eligible to cast a vote in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, for which more than 12 lakh polling booths will be…
- India
Are LS poll date out? EC issues clarification after circular
The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Delhi, on Tuesday dismissed the reports that Lok Sabha election will be held on April 16. The reports were based on a circular from the office of…
- Andhra Pradesh
Over 4.08 crore voters in Andhra Pradesh, women outnumber men
Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh has a little over 4.08 crore voters with the women outnumbering men. As per the final electoral rolls published by the Election Commission on Monday, the state has a…
- India
IOA CEO appointment: 12 EC members allege president Usha ‘exerted pressure’
New Delhi: Around a dozen of Executive Council (EC) members of Indian Olympic Association alleged that president P.T.Usha “exerted pressure” on them to pave the way for Raghu Iyer’s appointment as CEO,…
- India
SC refuses to stay new law on appointment of CEC, ECs
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay the new law that provides for appointment of the chief election commissioner and election commissioners by a panel excluding the Chief Justice…
- News
Telangana: EC releases separate notifications for MLC by-elections
Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has on Thursday, January 11, issued separate notifications for the bye-elections for two MLC seats that fell vacant under the MLAs quota, following the resignation…
- India
EC failed to provide substantive response to ‘genuine concerns’ over EVMs: Jairam Ramesh
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has said the Election Commission has yet again failed to provide a “substantive response” to INDIA parties’ genuine concerns over EVMs and asserted that instead,…
