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NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday asked the West Bengal police chief to file a personal affidavit responding to Election Commission’s allegation that governing party TMC functionaries were making systematic, deliberate and concerted attempts to “derail, paralyse and frustrate” the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Though state counsel Menaka Guruswamy strongly refuted the…
NEW DELHI: The Congress will hold a major rally at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital on Sunday, stepping up its campaign over alleged “vote chori” and the SIR issue, party leaders said. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi are expected to address the rally. Ahead of the rally, senior leaders…
NEW DELHI: An agreement has been reached between parliamentarians to run the House “smoothly” after the government gave in to the opposition’s demand to hold a discussion on the ongoing pan-India special intensive revision of electoral rolls.After two days of chaos and disruptions, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla held a Business Advisory Committee meeting with…
NEW DELHI: The winter session of Parliament will be held from December 1 to 19, government announced on Saturday, with the announcement triggering an angry reaction from the opposition, which described it as an unusually delayed and truncated session. The three-week session will have 15 sittings in all and is expected to be stormy as…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee addresssing rally in Kolkata NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday led a massive protest rally in Kolkata against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which her party, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), has described as “silent invisible rigging” by the BJP-led Centre and the Election…
TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee (Photo credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee on Monday stoked a controversy by challenging Union minister Sukanta Majumdar and Suvendu Adhikari to visit Dankuni without security amid the ongoing special intensive revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal.Banerjee accused Majumdar of threatening Bengal’s electorate and challenged him to…
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticised West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for opposing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, which will go to the polls next year.In the heated political atmosphere of West Bengal, the SIR has futher intensified…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Saturday filed an affidavit in Supreme Court declaring that it alone has full discretion to conduct a special intensive revision (SIR) or general revision of electoral rolls before a general elections, assembly polls or bye-elections to a constituency.Opposing a PIL by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay requesting SC to direct EC to…
