Tag: Electoral

FILE PHOTO SRINAGAR, Oct 2: Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference (JKPC) chief Sajad Lone on Saturday said that National Conference president Farooq Abdullah should quit electoral politics and support his party in order to consolidate Muslim votes in Jammu and Kashmir.Speaking to reporters here after former legislator and senior ...

ECI skips J&K from revision of electoral rolls New Delhi, Aug 31: For the third consecutive year, Jammu & Kashmir will not be part of the special summary revision of voters undertaken by the Election Commission of India due to ongoing delimitation exercise in the Union Territory. An ECI communiqué ...

Independence Day has always been a deeply political event. Every prime minister has used the opportunity awarded by the large audience for the August 15 speech from the Red Fort to both tomtom their government’s achievements as well as announce policy.In much the same vein, on India’s 75th independence ...

Islamabad : Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has termed China's one-party rule a unique model of governance that is an alternative to Western electoral democracies.Khan made the remarks in Islamabad as part of the Chinese Communist Party's centenary event on Thursday. "Until now, we had been told that the ...

I like how this 2 month old article is only now becoming relevant because of how much Modi screwed up the pandemic situation so the downvote brigade can't effectively cover up all articles related to India.Also people really out here defending his position because he was democratically elected and ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday flagged its concern that political parties could misuse crores of rupees received as donations through electoral bonds to bankroll violent protests or even terror.Hours after a gunman opened fire in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. President Joe Biden asked Congress to ban assault ...

An analytical research by Sweden-based Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute shows that India, the world largest democracy, has turned into an “electoral autocracy”. The research institute had last year said that the Bharatiya Janata Party now closely resembles a “typical governing party in an autocracy”.V-Dem measures uncertainty associated with ...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Saturday that his government will introduce electoral reforms and electronic voting machines to ensure fair and transparent elections in the country. Delivering a speech after winning a trust vote in the National Assembly, the cricketer-turned-politician said his government ...

Jammu and Kashmir will have its first direct elections since the state lost special status and was split into two Union Territories on August 5, 2019. It will also see Kashmiri regional parties re-entering electoral politics after a long hiatus. The elections, to be held in eight phases starting ...

NEW DELHI: Former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi has supported a ban on door-to-door campaigning by candidates in the ‘silence period’ to prevent allurement of voters using cash and liquor.He also batted for change in law to allow the Election Commission deregister a political party on various grounds, ...