Rajya Sabha by-election: Polling for 3 seats in West Bengal on July 24
As per the poll panel's schedule, the notification for the by-elections will be issued on July 7 and the last date for filing of nominations is July 14.
As per the poll panel's schedule, the notification for the by-elections will be issued on July 7 and the last date for filing of nominations is July 14.
While the petition initially referred to three accounts, the Kalighat camp claimed that a total of eight accounts had now been frozen.
The INDIA bloc has escalated its challenge to the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision process, with 23 Opposition parties and one Independent jointly writing to the Chief Justice of India seeking judicial scrutiny.
The apex court left open the option of an election petition before the High Court as the Congress intensified its protest over the rejection of Natarajan's candidature.
Congress leaders climbed police barricades and several workers were detained as the party intensified its campaign against the rejection of Meenakshi Natarajan's Rajya Sabha nomination.
Continuing his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remark that the ‘DMK is harassing Biharis’, made at an election rally in poll-bound Bihar, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday dared him to repeat the same in Tamil Nadu, which welcomes migrant workers and entrepreneurs, ensuring they live in peace and happiness.
Describing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as anti-democratic, the all-party meeting convened by the ruling DMK on Sunday termed the Election Commission a puppet of the BJP, and decided to challenge the exercise in the Supreme Court.
Similarly, police oversight was revamped, with SDPO Barh-1 Rakesh Kumar and SDPO Barh-2 Abhishek Singh transferred out.
MNS founder Raj Thackeray, who travelled by local train from Dadar to Churchgate, was the first politician to speak from a temporary podium constructed near the BMC headquarters.
The SP chief wants ECI to introduce a separate column for the electorate to register their respective castes in the electoral rolls.
