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NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Mamata Banerjee Tuesday refused to resign as West Bengal chief minister, asserting that she does not recognise the election outcome and claiming a “moral victory” for her party. “I was on the streets, I will be on the streets. I won’t leave the battlefield,” she said. Addressing her first presser after BJP’s landslide…
Omar Abdullah (File photo) NEW DELHI: J&K CM Omar Abdullah on Friday came out strongly in support of his Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee on the issue of EC transferring officials in poll-bound Bengal, saying these “sweeping transfers only happen in non-BJP-governed states”.“Bengal will once again prove that officers don’t win elections for political parties; members…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Sunday announced the schedule for the 2026 Puducherry Assembly election, with polling to be held in a single phase on April 9 and counting of votes on May 4. Voting will take place for all 30 constituencies of the 16th Puducherry Legislative Assembly.Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, addressing a…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (PTI photo/file) NEW DELHI: The escalating showdown between the West Bengal government and the election commission over the intensive roll revision shows no sign of cooling, with chief minister Mamata Banerjee accusing the poll body of being “run by a political party” in an apparent allusion to the ruling BJP.In…
Election Commission of India (ECI) office in New Delhi (File photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: The election commission on Tuesday extended the special intensive revision (SIR) deadline in poll-bound West Bengal by two weeks. The roll revision in the TMC-ruled state will go on till February 21, and rolls will be published on February 28.In a letter…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission has approved a one-month extension of the deadline for filing claims and objections against the Uttar Pradesh draft electoral rolls published on Jan 6 as part of phase-2 of the special intensive revision of voters’ list.The state’s final electoral rolls will now be published on April 10 instead of March 6….
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, in her long-struggled resentment and legal battle against Election Commission’s exercise special intensive revision, has now adopted a literary form of protest, going an unusual way, authoring 26 poem on the issue that has been the cause of trouble for her.The poems…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday weighed in on the controversy surrounding the alleged fading of indelible ink used during Maharashtra’s civic body elections, using a Gen Z term to accuse the Election Commission of undermining public trust.Amid mounting complaints from voters and opposition parties that the ink applied to mark fingers during Thursday’s polls…
NEW DELHI: The opposition on Wednesday launched a broadside against Election Commission and Bharatiya Janata Party after 2.89 crore electors were deleted from the draft voter list in Uttar Pradesh after special intensive revision.Congress state president Ajay Rai called for an inquiry alleging a “big conspiracy.”“The removal of 2.89 crore voters (from UP SIR draft…
Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar (Image credits: ANI) NEW DELHI: Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Monday informed that India has been invited to chair the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) for the first time, gaining recognition for its electoral process.Commenting on this achievement, he said, “The world recognises the successful…
