Tag: Election Commission
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EC issues another show cause notice to WB CM Mamata Banerjee
The new EC notice, issued on Thursday night, has asked the chief minister to submit her written explanation to the commission before 11 a.m. on April 10
April 9, 2021 -
EC halves campaigning ban on Biswa Sarma after apology
The BJP leader now can start campaigning from the evening. He was on Friday initially barred from campaigning related activities till 4 April for allegedly making threatening remarks against Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) chief Hagrama Mohilary.
April 4, 2021 -
All parties need to do ‘serious re-evaluation of EVMs’: Priyanka Gandhi
Tagging the tweet which carried the video, Priyanka Gandhi said every time there is an election, videos of private vehicles caught transporting EVMs show up.
April 2, 2021 -
WB Assembly Elections: Mamata threatens to take EC to court; reports of sporadic violence, booth jamming
There have been reports of sporadic violence and minor clashes from various constituencies, including the high profile Nandigram, where Mamata Banerjee is locked in a high-stakes electoral battle with her former lieutenant Suvendu Adhikari now with the BJP.
April 1, 2021 -
800 companies of CAPF may be deployed for phase 2
The second phase will see polling in 30 assembly constituencies spread across four districts namely Bankura, West Midnapore, East Midnapore and South 24 Parganas. Attention, however, will be on Nandigram, where chief minister Mamata Banerjee faces her former lieutenant Suvendu Adhikari.
March 30, 2021 -
7.72% polling in Bengal in first two hours
The BJP workers also complained about Trinamool workers "unleashing terror" in poll-bound districts in collusion with a section of the state police.
March 27, 2021 -
HC Single Bench order set aside, Kumar to move apex court
The returning officer had cancelled Kumar's nomination.
March 13, 2021 -
Mamata Banerjee discharged from hospital; Trinamul team seeks probe into ‘attack’
After her discharge, Miss Banerjee was seen coming out of the hospital in a wheelchair.
March 13, 2021 -
Assam Assembly Polls: Election Commission issues notification for 1st phase polling
The 126-member Assam Assembly will go to elections in three phases and the counting for all phases will take place on May 2.
March 3, 2021 -
Police rejig in Bengal before Assembly polls
Mohan has also been appointed as the State Police Nodal Officer. Shamim, who is transferred to the post of DG, fire services, is the first IPS officer to be transferred after the announcement of polls.
February 28, 2021 -
Bengal braces for 8 phases of polling
Election Commission also announces Assembly election dates for Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry.
February 27, 2021 -
Mamata Banerjee alleges Bengal ‘poll dates are similar to the ones BJP wanted’
Mamata Banerjee said the Election Commission should not look at the state "through the eyes of the saffron camp" -- a reference to the BJP.
February 26, 2021 -
Election Commission announces poll dates of West Bengal, four other state assemblies
In Bengal, the polls will be conducted in eight phases, starting from March 27 to April 29. The result of the assembly elections will be declared on May 2.
February 26, 2021 -
Kalyan smells foul play in sending forces
He added: “I am well versed with the democratic constitutional rights and limitations of the states, the central government and the Election Commission. As far as my knowledge goes central forces cannot be sent or deployed in a state until the Election Commission issues notification regarding election. Hence it is my personal question 'under whose directive the central forces have been sent to the state?' The Election Commission sending central force to the state without prior notification appears to me as an act of political vindictiveness.”
February 22, 2021 -
Beyond recognition
The constitutional crisis, that cannot but impinge on governance, has exacerbated this week with the country's Election Commission refusing to recognise either of the factions as “they had failed to adopt due procedures”.
January 29, 2021 -
President Kovind graces 11th National Voters’ Day; EC to roll out digital voter identity cards
The theme for NVD 2021 is ‘Making Our Voters Empowered, Vigilant, Safe and Informed.’
January 25, 2021 -
‘Count VVPAT slips, not EVM tallies’
A former IAS officer, Quraishi held significant posts in Haryana as well as in the Union government. In an interview with VIJAY THAKUR, Quraishi spoke on the EC’s roadmap and its challenges in holding elections in pandemic times.
December 19, 2020