Tag: Election Commission
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CBDT Chairman Sushil Chandra appointed Election Commissioner
With his appointment, the EC now has Sunil Arora as the Chief Election Commissioner and Ashok Lavasa and Chandra as fellow commissioners.
February 14, 2019 -
Some climbdown
It would be difficult to explain the new faith in the VVPAT devices, they too are electronic and if the EVMs can be hacked or rigged so too can their “authenticators”.
February 6, 2019 -
EVM Issue: Supreme Court asks Election Commission to file its reply in four weeks
The top court has fixed a date after six weeks for the final disposal of the petition.
February 4, 2019 -
EC writes to states on transfer, posting of officials ahead of Lok Sabha polls
The poll body directed all state governments to transfer officials posted in their home districts and those who have spent three years in a district in the last four years.
January 30, 2019 -
No going back to ballot papers, EVM not football, can’t be tampered with: CEC hits back at ‘hackathon’ event
Reiterating the Election Commission's stand that EVMs cannot be tampered with, the CEC said the electronic voting machines are being used for over two decades in India during elections.
January 24, 2019 -
EVM row goes viral
In the past the Commission has invited critics to prove their charges against EVMs, but there was always a challenging, confrontationist tenor to its “invitations”.
January 24, 2019 -
Cong contests Modi govt’s ‘tall claims’, says PM lowered political discourse to ‘gutter level’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Congress over corruption using former chief minister Rajiv Gandhi’s '15 paise' remark.
January 23, 2019 -
Ashraf Ghani to contest upcoming Afghan presidential election
A total of 14 politicians including Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, former National Security Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar and former warlord Gulbudin Hekmatyar are in the fray.
January 20, 2019 -
Election Commission rescinds Thiruvarur by-election
In a communication to the Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu, the EC on Sunday said the notification calling upon Thiruvarur to elect a member of the legislative assembly shall stand rescinded forthwith.
January 7, 2019 -
Women still kept out of Indian legislatures
India stands at the lower rung of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) 2018 rankings at 152 among 193 countries in women’s representation in parliaments.
December 28, 2018 -
A waiver to woo~II
In the hands of Yogi Adityanath or Rahul Gandhi and their ilk, to whom national resources are meant only to serve their political goals, sanity will be the casualty as they hanker for power at any cost. And so will be the hopes of farmers for a better life.
December 28, 2018 -
Hand plucks the Lotus
There was a near-total absence of truckloads of cash, sewing machines, sarees, bicycles, laptops, etc. as 'incentive' to voters. Evidently, voters did not evince much interest in such 'incentives'. A related issue was the minimal violence by political party goons since voters were tightlipped in all surveys and there was no way of gauging their political preferences and prejudices to beat them into submission beforehand.
December 16, 2018 -
NOTA votes exceeded victory margin in 12 Rajasthan seats
In Jaipur's Malviya Nagar seat, Congress candidate Archana Sharma lost to BJP's Ashok Saraf, the Health Minister, by 1,704 votes while NOTA gained 2,371 votes, Election Commission statistics show.
December 13, 2018 -
The focus now is on 2019
The issues for the 2019 polls will be more or less the same - like the Augusta versus Rafael defence deals, unemployment, agrarian crisis, economy, non-delivery of Modi’s 2014 election promises and petrol prices.
December 9, 2018 -
Owaisi hits back at Adityanath’s ‘Nizam’ barb, says Indian by choice
Owaisi also criticised Adityanath for coming to Telangana for election campaign at a time when there was tension in Bulandshahr in the northern state.
December 5, 2018 -
EC removes Vikarabad SP over Congress leader Revanth Reddy’s arrest in Telangana
Revanth had given a Kodangal bandh call and asked the party workers to stage protest programs across the constituency against the visit of the chief minister.
December 5, 2018 -
Congress accuses BJP of EVM tampering in MP, moves EC for probe
A Congress delegation led by former Union Ministers Kapil Sibal and Kamal Nath submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission, including video evidence of the four incidents, that occurred respectively in Sagar, Bhopal, Satna and Shajapur districts.
December 4, 2018