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Kolkata, March 6 – The Trinamool Congress on Friday announced a three-member delegation that will meet the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Kolkata on Monday.The delegation includes Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra from the Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district, Rajya...

Kolkata, March 6 The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday alleged a lack of transparency in the publication of electoral rolls for the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections, and urged the Election Commission to ensure compliance with the directions of the Supreme Court.In a letter to the Chief...

Kochi, March 6 Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar called on all political parties on Friday to ensure that the upcoming Assembly elections in Kerala remain a model, not only for the country but also for the world.Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Dr...

Bhubaneswar, March 6 – The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Odisha, R.S. Gopalan, on Friday, launched a citizen awareness initiative on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls and appealed to voters in the state, especially those in urban areas, to verify their details in the...

Kolkata, March 6 Trinamool Congress national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee appealed to people to "boycott the BJP" in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, alleging that the party was targeting voters through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Banerjee made...

Kolkata, March 6 – The political atmosphere in West Bengal intensified on Friday as TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee called for a "social and political boycott" of the BJP, accusing the Election Commission of attempting to disenfranchise over one crore voters through the Systematic Voters'...

Kolkata, March 6 A significant backlog in the disposal of "under adjudication" cases in West Bengal's post-SIR electoral rolls has raised concerns about whether a large number of electors would be disenfranchised due to the limited time available for scrutiny before the upcoming assembly...

New Delhi, March 6 The Election Commission's training arm, IIIDEM, has launched three academic initiatives aimed at strengthening research, academic engagement, and student participation in the field of democracy and election management.The initiatives also build upon the outcomes of the...

Kochi, March 6 Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar called on all political parties on Friday to ensure that the upcoming Assembly elections in Kerala remain a model not only for the country but also for the world, EC officials said.Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Dr Sukhbir...

Kochi, March 6 – The Election Commission held a crucial meeting with recognized national and state political parties here on Friday as part of preparations for the upcoming elections in Kerala. Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar assured that the poll process would remain free, fair, and...

Kolkata, March 6: The 200 judicial officers from the neighboring states of Jharkhand and Odisha will arrive in West Bengal by Saturday and begin their work on March 9, as part of the Election Commission of India's (ECI) ongoing exercise to adjudicate voter documents identified under the "logical...

Kolkata, March 6 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will begin her indefinite sit-in demonstration at Esplanade East in Central Kolkata on Friday afternoon against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.As planned, Trinamool Congress workers and leaders will start...

New Delhi, March 5 – The West Bengal Congress unit urged the Election Commission on Thursday to announce the state Assembly election schedule only after all pending cases related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the state's electoral rolls are resolved.The state Congress submitted a...

New Delhi, March 5 The Congress on Thursday demanded that the assembly elections in West Bengal should not be announced until all cases currently under adjudication as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls are disposed of.The opposition party made the demand after a...

Gandhinagar, March 5 – IAS officer Sandip Sagale assumed the role of Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Gujarat on Thursday, and on his first day, he reviewed the functioning and preparedness of the state's election administration with officials.Sagale took over after receiving orders from the...

Kolkata, March 5 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Thursday that the Commission's full bench, which will visit West Bengal for a two-day tour next week, will have a packed schedule.According to the schedule, the full bench, headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)...

Mumbai, March 5 A five-member delegation from Maharashtra, led by the state's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S Chockalingam, will travel to Colombia from March 6 to 10 as international observers for the elections to the Republic of Colombia, officials said on Thursday.The Colombian...

Kolkata, March 5 The full bench of the Election Commission, led by CEC Gyanesh Kumar, is likely to arrive in West Bengal on March 8, a senior poll official said on Thursday.The EC delegation, which was earlier expected to reach the state on March 9, is now likely to arrive on Sunday night and...

Guwahati, March 5 – Three candidates – Jogen Mohan, Terash Gowalla, and Pramod Boro – filed their nomination papers for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections from Assam on Thursday.The nomination papers were submitted at the office of the Returning Officer at the Assam Legislative Assembly...

Mumbai, March 5 – A five-member delegation from Maharashtra, led by the state’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S Chockalingam, will travel to Columbia as International Observers in the International Observation Mission for the elections to the Congress of the Republic of Columbia from March 6 to...