SIR
- Delhi
Delhi SIR: EROs to follow 10-point list before deleting names
New Delhi: During the ongoing Special Revision of electoral rolls in the national capital, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has warned Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) to follow a comprehensive checklist before marking…
- India
Suvendu blames Mamata for 27 lakh voter deletions in Bengal
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday, September 27, blamed former CM Mamata Banerjee for the deletion of 27 lakh names from the state’s electoral rolls during the Special Intensive…
- India
Amid CEC row, Ghulam Nabi Azad calls on opposition to unite
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday, September 27, called on the opposition to unite and raise its voice amid growing demands to sack Chief Election Commissioner…
- India
Voters need not attend SIR hearings in person, says ECI
New Delhi: The Election Commissioners of India (ECIs) – Gyanesh Kumar, Vivek Joshi and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu – announced on Saturday, September 26, that voters who received notices under unmapped and anomaly…
- 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…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad’s richest person receives SIR hearing notice
Hyderabad: The richest person in Hyderabad, Murali Krishna Prasad Divi, whose name is listed in the top 100 in the Hurun Report, received a hearing notice in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision…
- 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…
- Hyderabad
4.93 lakh SIR notices lapse as voters skip hearing in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: As many as 4.93 lakh hearing notices issued to voters in Hyderabad district during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls have lapsed after voters failed to respond within the…
- Telangana
Telangana SIR: CEO holds meeting with state poll officials
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) C. Sudharsan Reddy on Monday, September 21, held a video conference with the Commissioner, GHMC and District Election Officer, Hyderabad, all District Election Officers (DEOs), Electoral…
- India
Congress calls SIR a ‘method of disenfranchising Indians’
New Delhi: The Election Commission’s SIR exercise is a “Method Of Disenfranchising Indians” and has turned into a “Frankenstein monster”, the Congress said on Monday, September 21, amid outrage over 33.13 lakh…
