The Election Fee of India (ECI) on Tuesday issued directions for holding a Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar, in accordance with the schedule and tips prescribed by the Fee. In an official assertion, the ballot physique stated that the target of an intensified revision is to make sure that the…
Flagging alleged irregularities within the 2024 Maharashtra meeting polls, Congress MP and Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday claimed that these weren’t remoted glitches however “vote theft”, and demanded the speedy launch of machine-readable digital voter rolls in addition to CCTV footage. The LoP shared on X a media report which claimed…
ECI Bypoll Elections Outcomes 2025 Dwell: The outcomes of by-elections to 5 meeting seats in 4 states shall be introduced on Monday. The counting of votes started at 8 am amid tight safety. The by-polls had been held on June 19 for 2 seats in Gujarat – Visavadar and Kadi meeting seats – and one…
New Delhi: The Election Fee of India (ECI), Saturday responded to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s demand for releasing CCTV footage of polling cubicles within the Maharashtra meeting election, calling it a “politically motivated” transfer. ECI sources consider that publicly releasing such footage could possibly be supposed to harass or profile voters, significantly in cubicles the place…
The fee underlined that videography and pictures of the election course of should not mandated by legislation however are used as an “inside administration software”. This marks a departure from the sooner directions issued on 6 September 2024, which had laid out particular timelines — starting from three months to a 12 months — for…
If the Elector’s Photograph Identification Card (EPIC) is certainly ‘distinctive’, why is the Election Fee of India (ECI) pushing to hyperlink this with one other ‘distinctive’ quantity? Each EPIC and Aadhaar have been mired in controversies and each are identified to have been duplicated. The Distinctive Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) itself admits to having…
Type 6B at the moment permits those that don’t have already got an Aadhaar quantity to offer another doc for verification of id. Because of this, the amendments successfully allow the ECI to mandate those that have Aadhar numbers to hyperlink them to the electoral rolls, even supposing earlier makes an attempt at Aadhaar-linkage resulted in…
Rahul Gandhi On ECI: कांग्रेस समेत पूरा विपक्ष मतदाता सूची में हेरफेर और डुप्लीकेट मतदाता पहचान पत्र को लेकर चुनाव आयोग पर हमलावर है. इस बीच चुनाव आयोग ने मंगलवार को कहा कि मतदाता पहचान पत्रों को आधार से जोड़ने का काम मौजूदा कानून और सुप्रीम कोर्ट के निर्देशों के अनुसार किया जाएगा. ECI ने कहा…
The ECI’s correspondence additionally referenced the Illustration of the Folks Acts of 1950-51, the Registration of Electors Guidelines of 1960, the Conduct of Election Guidelines of 1961, orders from the Supreme Courtroom and numerous tips issued by the ECI, all of which collectively — and ideally — set up a decentralised, sturdy, and clear authorized…
Within the 2019 common elections, then election commissioner Ashok Lavasa, after investigating complaints in the course of the marketing campaign, pushed for motion in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah for violating the MCC. Chief election commissioner Sunil Arora strongly opposed this. In the end, Lavasa needed to give up….
