ECI begins ground review in Assam ahead of assembly polls
The delegation includes Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, who will participate in a series of review meetings with state officials and other stakeholders.
The delegation includes Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, who will participate in a series of review meetings with state officials and other stakeholders.
The BSP chief suggested that the entire responsibility for completing the mandated formalities regarding the disclosures of criminal background should rest solely with the candidate, not political parties.
The announcement is expected to disappoint the Opposition Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) parties that have already raised the issue of major discrepancies in voters' list and taken a stand that local civic body elections must not be held until the voters' list is cleaned up and fake voters are weeded out from the voters' list.
Following the ECI’s strict guidelines, District Election Officers (DEOs) from all 18 districts participating in Phase-I conducted the randomization process after completing the First Level Checking (FLC) of the EVMs and VVPATs.
Amid the Opposition's allegations regarding Electronic Voting Machines after the Maharashtra polls in which the ruling Mahayuti alliance registered a landslide victory.
The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday said there was no discrepancy found between VVPAT slip count and EVM control unit count in the recently concluded Maharashtra Assembly polls.
As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, the issue is listed before a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta “for directions” on April 24.
In its reply to Ramesh’s letter, the poll panel categorically said it has no new assertions or reasonable and legitimate doubts which require further clarifications.
The state government and the state election commission (SEC) has policy-wise decided to use VVPAT but it depends whether the poll body will have an adequate supply of machines before the election.
The commission has said that these EVMs won`t be used for voting on Tuesday.
