Heavy security, long queues and missing Trinamool booth agents defined the opening hours of Falta repolling ordered by the Election Commission after alleged poll irregularities.
Over 1.13 lakh names have been deleted from Jammu and Kashmir’s Panchayat electoral rolls while 3.39 lakh new voters were added during the latest revision exercise, pushing the total electorate past 72.24 lakh ahead of the upcoming panchayat polls.
The Supreme Court on Thursday termed it “very unfortunate” that political parties demand an independent Election Commission when in opposition, but turn silent on the issue or take a completely contrary stand once in power, even as the court was told that free and fair elections — a part of the basic structure of the Constitution — necessarily presuppose an independent and impartial Election Commission.
After losing ground in key constituencies, Mamata Banerjee accused authorities of unfair practices, questioned the election outcome’s legitimacy, and signalled a political fight ahead for her party.
ECI enforces strict counting rules in Bengal, stopping Abhishek Banerjee at a Kolkata centre while issuing directions over mobile phone violations during Bhabanipur vote counting.
Reacting to President Draupdi Murmu’s sanction on Wednesday to the delimitation notification for the state, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa…
This comes when Pakistan’s National Assembly and all four provincial assemblies in the country stand dissolved.
The Supreme Court on Friday junked a petition seeking to restrain the alliance of 26 political parties from using the…
The announcement over the weekend that Pakistan’s National Assembly would be dissolved on 9 August ~ with fresh elections to be held within a maximum of 90 days thereafter ~ followed a day later by news of the conviction and arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan has set the political stage in a country where democracy has often been seen to stutter, and the Army has cast a long shadow on the poll process.
The apex court issues notice on challenge to Section 8A of RP Act.
