Tag: Election Commission

On a two-day visit to the Valley, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday evening met members of different communities and a group of BJP leaders in Srinagar. Sources said Shah asked the BJP leaders to start preparing for the Assembly elections, saying the party will contest all the ...

NEW DELHI: BJP on Wednesday called upon the Election Commission (EC) to take decisive action against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his recent statements alleging the creation of two categories of soldiers by the Modi government.The BJP delegation, led by senior leaders including external affairs minister S Jaishankar and ...

New Delhi: Roughly 111 million people on Tuesday voted to elect their Lok Sabha representatives in 93 constituencies across 11 states and Union territories, marking the end of the high-stakes third phase of polling that saw citizens from Assam to Gujarat and Karnataka to western Uttar Pradesh exercise their ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday moved the Election Commission seeking action against Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar for his remarks about the death of former Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, The Indian Express reported.Karkare was killed on November 26, 2008, when 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists took a sea route ...

On Tuesday, the Election Commission announced that polls for the Anantnag-Rajouri parliamentary seat were being deferred, days after some political parties demanded the same because of inclement weather, which has blocked road connectivity between different parts of the constituency.Instead of May 7, polls will be held in the seat ...

Democratic Progressive Azad Party chairperson Ghulam Nabi Azad welcomed the EC’s decision to postpone polls in the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency. File photp | Photo Credit: ANI Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chairperson Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday welcomed the Election Commission's decision to postpone polls in the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency and ...

The EC has simplified the voting process for Kashmiri migrants living in Jammu and Udhampur, who will no longer have to fill out an additional ‘Form M’, the EC announced Friday. For those Kashmiri migrants living outside of Jammu and Udhampur, the ‘Form M’ is still mandatory but would ...

NEW DELHI: Kashmiri migrant voters based in Jammu and Udhampur districts of J&K would no longer be required to fill up 'Form M' to vote in the Lok Sabha polls with the Election Commission ordering changes to the existing voting scheme for displaced people, fulfilling their long-standing demand.Earlier, the ...

Kartik Naik is in his 40s, and works as a mason’s helper in the Nettoor area, in Kerala’s Ernakulam, where mostly Odia male migrant labourers reside. As polling for his state’s assembly and for the Lok Sabha nears, Kartik says that he does not plan to return to his ...

In the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 19, eight per cent of the candidates will be women. This phase encompasses 102 seats, with a total of 1,625 candidates vying for victory. Among them, 1,491 are male candidates and 134 are female candidates, constituting 8% of the ...