High-profile Udhampur LS seat records around 70 pc polling
The Udhampur constituency sprawls from the plains of Kathua touching Punjab to the mountainous regions of Kishtwar and Doda.
The Udhampur constituency sprawls from the plains of Kathua touching Punjab to the mountainous regions of Kishtwar and Doda.
The Samajwadi Party posted on social media alleging that names of about 1500 voters are missing from the voter list at Booth Number 172 of village Masavi under Bhawan Thana in Kairana Lok Sabha.
The Nodal officers will further give it to the concerned Returning officers (ROs) or the Assistant Returning officers (AROs) under proper receipt with dates when these forms are handed over.
Interestingly, polling in the state was slightly higher than the last elections till the afternoon, with 37.3 per cent against 36.8 per cent in 2019 by 1 pm, but it came down substantially and the graph never went up after that.
The Election Commission of India said the voting percentage is likely to go upwards when reports from all polling stations are obtained. Final figures will be known tomorrow after the scrutiny of the available data, an ECI official said.
The top court was hearing two separate pleas filed in 2007 by senior journalist B G Verghese, (who passed away in 2014) and the other by noted lyricist Javed Akhtar and Shabnam Hashmi, seeking a probe into the alleged fake encounters.
The party termed the projection of “the Anandpur Sahib resolution as a separatist agenda” a conspiracy to defame the Sikh community.
The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that there were serious doubts about the locus and motive of the petitioners in a matter connected with the alleged fake encounter cases in the state, between 2002 and 2006.
Declining two pleas challenging Delhi High Court’s February 27 verdict, the apex court said that the candidates, who had earlier got selected through earlier recruitment processes like rallies, physical and medical tests, do not have a “vested right” to appointment.
Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party have taken a stand that the present method of notification of minorities at the Central level is correct.