New Delhi: Ahead of the Bihar polls, the Election Commission of India has approved the broad guidelines for the conduct of elections and bye-elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic. These include the use of masks, sanitisers, thermal scanners and adherence to social distancing norms during the election process. Only five people will be allowed including the […]
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J&K Panchayat by elections to be held in March
Srinagar: The by-elections for close to 13,000 vacant panchayat seats In Jammu and Kashmir will be held in March, Chief Electoral officer Shailendra Kumar said in Jammu on Thursday. He said the elections would be held in eight phases beginning March 5. The poll phases are scheduled to be held on March 5, March 7, […]
BJP stifling my voice in Parliament: Rahul
New Delhi: Following a brief altercation between Congress and BJP MPs inside the Lok Sabha on Friday, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi alleged that his voice is being suppressed in the House. Gandhi is in the middle of the Friday row inside the House as MPs from treasury benches clashed with opposition over the former […]
Delhiites raise voice for clean air as election demand
New Delhi: What started with a clean air agenda in Delhi has now turned into a citizen-led movement to petition election candidates to work for clean air. In a movement to promote clean air as a major demand for Delhi voters in the upcoming elections, over 1.9 lakh locals from 30 constituencies have advocated the […]
Election ‘Biryani’ at core of BJP’s Delhi campaign
New Delhi: Delhi goes to poll on Saturday and with just three days of campaigning remaining, BJP unleashed its top brass, including firebrand Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, who has raked up the delectable issue of Biryani. Adityanath has alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party is serving Biryani to the Shaheen Bagh protesters, […]
BJP likely to give 124 seats to Sena, unwilling to give Dy CM post
New Delhi: After a marathon central election committee meeting of the BJP that went on till late in the night, the saffron party has finalised its list of candidates for Maharashtra leaving just 124 of the total 288 seats for its ally Shiv Sena, say sources. A small amount of seats are left for smaller […]
Modi attacks Congress again, says it’s spreading myth
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday again attacked the Congress party, saying it was spreading a myth that if it loses an election then it is a loss for the country. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Modi said the Congress was consumed by pride and preferred to look outward without doing any introspection […]
Mamata to skip all-party meet, demands white paper on ‘One Country, One Election’
Kolkata: Indicating that she would skip the meeting of presidents of all political parties convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday wrote to the Centre saying it should not go about “hurriedly” on a “sensitive and serious subject” like ‘One Country, One Election’. […]
Election strategist Prashant Kishor meets Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata: After the Trinamool Congress suffered a major setback in the Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met election strategist Prashant Kishor. Kishor was accompanied by party MP Abhishek Banerjee to the state Secretariat. The meeting with the Chief Minister lasted for about 90 minutes. Of 42 […]
Questions over EVMs after 10K glitches, EC swears by machines
New Delhi: In the midst of the election season, questions are being raised by various Opposition parties over the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) after about 10,000 of these machines malfunctioned at different places during the first three phases of Lok Sabha polls. The Election Commission (EC) has deployed 23.4 lakh EVMs for balloting at 10.5 […]