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RJD leader Manoj Jha (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday dismissed claims made by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Jha regarding a supposedly cancelled meeting about Bihar’s special intensive revision of electoral rolls.Jha cited an EC letter that allegedly confirmed a meeting scheduled for July 10. He questioned the…
NEW DELHI: The Mahagathbandhan alliance on Wednesday kicked off a “Bihar Bandh” protesting against the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by the Election Commission.Opposition leaders, including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, will lead a protest rally in Patna and plan to encircle the Chief Electoral Office in the state…
NEW DELHI: With over three crore filled enumeration forms – accounting for 38% of Bihar’s 7.9 crore electorate – collected as of 6pm Monday, EC estimates that more than 75% of the state’s voters would have submitted their completed forms in the next couple of days.EC Monday said the enumeration forms received have already crossed…
After the Association for Democratic Reforms, multiple petition filed by different parties, including NGO People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), TMC MP Mahua Moitra and RJD, have approached Supreme Court against Election Commission’s special intensive revision (SIR) of Bihar’s electoral rolls and told the court that the exercise is illegal and calculated to disenfranchise the…
NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal on Saturday stepped up the attack against Election Commission’s special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Bihar by asking people to “refuse” to show any documents to the officials.Former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi, during her address on the occasion of party’s 28th foundation day, accused the Centre of hatching…
NEW DELHI: A delegation of 11 opposition parties met the Election Commission on Wednesday and objected the ongoing intensive revision of the electoral rolls in Bihar just months ahead of the upcoming assembly elections.The delegation dubbed the exercise as “Votebandi” and claimed that this will put democracy in the state “under threat”Briefing the media after…
Tejashwi Yadav (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: RJD leader and former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of influencing the Election Commission (EC) ahead of the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. He alleged that the Prime Minister has instructed the poll body to…
Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge (C) and Sonia Gandhi (R) NEW DELHI: The Congress party has formally responded to the Election Commission (EC) with a detailed letter raising serious questions about the polling process. This comes days after former party president and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, flagged what he called “vote theft”…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission officials on Saturday justified the recent amendment in Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, barring stakeholders other than itself from accessing poll-day webcasting feed from polling stations, unless an election petition was filed, saying that it was necessary to protect secrecy of voters and save them from possible intimidation.The poll-day CCTV footage…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission has revised its standard operating procedures (SOPs) for post-result checking of burnt memory or microcontroller of EVM (EVM C&V), allowing the candidates who finished second or third, to also opt for a mock poll on the selected EVM units, in addition to the simple diagnostic check already offered.As per the earlier…
