The proposed ‘grand alliance’ for Telangana assembly elections comprised of Congress, TDP, TJS and CPI is witnessing a massive battle among each other. And on Tuesday, troubles clearly came out in light, when Telangana Jana Samiti (TJS) president Prof M Kodandaram blamed Congress over adopting the callous attitude towards its[Read More…]
Srinagar, Oct 7 (IANS) A total of 820 polling stations have been set up in 321 municipal wards for municipal polls starting on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir with 1,204 candidates in the fray but with voter participation uncertain in the Kashmir Valley. Shaleen Kabra, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO)[Read More…]
New Delhi: Assuring timely allocation of electronic voting machines (EVM) for the 2019 general elections, the Election Commission on Sunday said it was in the process of ensuring allocation of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) for over 10 lakh polling stations. The mandatory First Level Checks and training to[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) will deploy several technology applications to nail violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) during elections and ensure smooth polling. The EC has developed C-VIGIL android mobile phone application to enable people to report code violations. “The delay in reporting code violations so[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) The Election Commission on Saturday announced by-elections in three Lok Sabha and two Assembly constituencies in Karnataka on November 3 and the result will be out on November 6. By-elections will be held in Shimoga, Bellary (ST) and Mandya Lok Sabha constituencies and Ramanagaram and[Read More…]
LIVE UPDATES: The Election Commission Saturday announced dates for the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Mizoram and Telangana. With the announcement of the poll dates by the ECI, the Model Code of Conduct has come into force with immediate effect. The election in Chhattisgarh will be held in[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: The Congress on Monday finalised the names of 44 candidates for Assembly polls scheduled in Odisha in 2019. “They have been selected on the basis of winnability factor,” said state Congress President Niranjan Patnaik. The names of all 15 outgoing MLAs have been recommended to get ticket, said Patnaik.[Read More…]
Kartikey Singh, son of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is a young politician and businessman of Madhya Pradesh, who is currently engaged in several political activities of the state. He has been seen in various rallies and also managing his ventures at the same time. Kartikey Singh Chouhan, a flower[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh assembly elections are scheduled for the end of 2018, however internal fight within the state BJP has started evolving. Two BJP stalwarts of Chhattisgarh, Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh and Cabinet Minister Brijmohan Agrawal, both are involved in an internal cold war over the Chief Ministerial candidature and experts[Read More…]
The ruling Congress in Punjab on Saturday won the most seats in the Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections and headed for a landslide victory as counting was underway. The main opposition AAP in the state assembly faced a humiliating defeat. Out of 113 Zila Parishad seats — out of[Read More…]
Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje is once again going to face a woman adversary in the upcoming assembly election. Mukul Choudhary, wife of IPS officer Pankaj Choudhary is set to contest against the Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje from Jhalrapatan seat. Mukul alleges that her husband Pankaj is harassed by the[Read More…]
The ruling Congress has swept the zila parishad and panchayat samiti polls in Punjab, according to the results declared Sunday. The Congress won 331 of the 335 zila (district) parishad seats, while the Shiromani Akali Dal got 18, Bharatiya Janata Party secured two and the Aam Aadmi Party none, the[Read More…]
In a significant development, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday ordered issuing of notices to the Election Commission of India (EC), Maharashtra State Election Commission (M-SEC) and two public sector makers of electronic voting machines (EVM) and others in a public interest litigation filed by an RTI activist. The directions[Read More…]
A total of 1,05,299 duplicate/fake voters appeared in Jaipur electoral rolls and all these have been deleted, said district collector Siddharth Mahajan on Saturday. Congress had recently complained to the Election Commission demanding a probe into duplicate voters. The state election department identified the duplicate names with the help of[Read More…]
Joint Statement by All JNU Organisations on Disruption of JNUSU Election Counting Process by ABVP Condemn ABVP’s Hooliganism During JNUSU Election Counting Process! Unite Against Every Attempt by ABVP to Disrupt Conducting of the Counting! Counting for the JNUSU Elections 2018-19 has been suspended by the Election Committee (EC) following[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) Counting of votes for the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) polls were stopped on Saturday when two principal contenders of an unnamed political group along with their supporters barged into a counting center and tried to snatch ballot boxes, the varsity election committee said. The[Read More…]
Nidhi Mishra, a differently abled student, who is visually impaired and also an international para-athlete, is contesting for the post of president post in Jawaharlal Nehru University students’ union election 2018. Nidhi is a studying in Center for Social Exclusion and Inclusive policy in JNU. Speaking exclusively with Newsd she[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday questioned the Election Commission over the privately sourced Electronic Voting Machine (EVMs) used in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections. “From where can you procure EVMs privately? Doesn’t ECI claim that no one can manufacture or buy or[Read More…]
The Chief Election Commission on Thursday said that EVMs used for DUSU election were not supplied by them to the Delhi University. The commission stated that it “seems the university has procured these machines privately”. Earlier today, the Congress’ students’ wing National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) whose candidates for[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Thursday won the posts of President, Vice President and Joint Secretary in the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections. NSUI bagged the post of Secretary. The results for the four posts, elected for one year, were announced late evening. The[Read More…]
NSUI demands re-election due to faulty EVMs RSS-youth wing ABVP is demanding that counting of votes be resumed, but NSUI is asking for a re-election following six faulty EVMs. DUSU Election Result 2018: Counting remain suspended till further orders NSUI alleges EVM problems The student wing of Congress, NSUI has alleged technical glitches[Read More…]
Duplicate entries of voters in the list continue to be a bigger challenge for the concerned authorities in poll-bound state Rajasthan. As per recent media reports around 25000 duplicate names have been found by the authorities in Rajasthan capital Jaipur. In the meanwhile, authorities are erasing the duplicate names from[Read More…]
Election strategist Prashant Kishore on Sunday said that he would not be involved in the 2019elections as he wants to go back to the grassroots. He said he had worked enough with leaders. He also denied media reports that he is joining politics. Interacting with students of Indian School of Business (ISB) here, he[Read More…]
SFS candidate Kanu Priya is elected president of Panjab University students’ council. She is the first woman to win the top post. Daler Singh of the SOI alliance has won vice president’s post. Daler Singh of the SOI alliance has won vice president’s post in Panjab University students’ council election. There were[Read More…]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) blamed Karnataka’s ruling coalition partners Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) for its defeat in the state civic polls held across 22 districts. “The BJP should have won more seats but we could not perform the way we wanted to because of the Congress-JD(S) coalition,” BJP state[Read More…]