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.
Elections to the lone Lok Sabha seat and by-poll to Aizawl West-I Assembly seat were held simultaneously in the first phase of polling on April 11.
The bench, comprising of justices Arun Mishra and MR Shah, refused to entertain the PIL filed by Tech 4 All, a Chennai based organisation, observing that a larger bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, has already dealt with the matter and passed an order.
The delegation led by Chandrababu Naidu would also include the Congress, AAP, Trinamool Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Communist Party of India (CPI), CPI-M and many other parties.
The declaration of results for the Delhi Lok Sabha seats may get delayed by around five to six hours (on May 23) as more time will be spent on counting VVPATs from each of the 70 Assembly segments.
BJP spokesperson and party candidate from Puri, Sambit Patra, claimed that after the fifth round of polling the BJP-led NDA was all set to form the government.
