New Delhi : In a major relief to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the High Court on Friday set aside the Election Commission recommendation disqualifying 20 ruling party MLAs in an office-of-profit case. The court asked the Election Commission to hear the case afresh because the MLAs were not given proper hearing before the poll […]
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Voting for 3 Lok Sabha seats in UP, Bihar on March 11
New Delhi : By-elections to the Lok Sabha seats of Gorakhpur and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh and Araira in Bihar will be held on March 11, the Election Commission announced on Friday. Polling will also be held in the Jehanabad and Bhabua Assembly constituencies of Bihar the same day. The poll panel said the vote […]
AAP MLAs’ plea ‘misdirected’, ‘not maintainable’, EC tells HC
New Delhi: The Election Commission has told the Delhi High Court that the various writ petitions submitted by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators against their disqualification in the ‘office of profit’ case are “misdirected” and “not maintainable”, and has sought their dismissal “with cost”. In its reply to the High Court,it also tried to […]
File reply in AAP MLAs disqualification case: HC to EC
New Delhi, Jan 30 : The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the poll panel to file a detailed affidavit on the eight AAP MLAs plea challenging their disqualification for holding office of profit. A division bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Chander Shekhar sought the response from the Election Commission and listed the matter […]
Assembly by-elections in two MP seats on Feb 24
Bhopal, Jan 19 : The Election Commission on Friday said that assembly by-elections to Mungawali in Ashoknagar district and Kolaras in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh will be held on February 24. The Commission said that paper trail machines will be used with EVMs. Counting of votes will be held on February 28. According to the […]
EC wants 20 AAP MLAs disqualified
New Delhi, Jan 19 : The Election Commission is understood to have recommended disqualification of 20 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs on grounds of holding office of profit as Parliamentary Secretaries. The Election Commission gave its opinion to the President on a complaint by the Congress in June 2016, seeking disqualification of the AAP MLAs. Under […]