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Chennai, March 28 TVK chief Vijay will launch his party's election campaign for the upcoming Tamil Nadu polls from Perambur here on March 30, EC sources said on Saturday.Vijay had met with Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Archana Patnaik at the Secretariat earlier in the day to submit a...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 28 BJP Kerala general secretary S Suresh on Saturday alleged that Election Commission officials, including the state CEO, were colluding with the government and the ruling CPI(M) to "undermine" free and fair elections in the state.Addressing a press conference here...

Guwahati, March 25 The nomination papers of Barpeta's Congress candidate, Mahananda Sarkar, were rejected on Wednesday, while the documents submitted by the remaining three nominees in the constituency were found to be valid, election officials said.The scrutiny of nomination papers for both...

Observers appointed by the Election Commission reviewed the preparations for the Puducherry Assembly elections at a meeting held at the District Collectorate yesterday. General and Expenditure Observers, along with election officials, police officers, and coordination officers, participated in...

Puducherry, March 19 N Rangasamy, the founder-president of AINRC and Chief Minister of Puducherry, visited temples in neighboring Tamil Nadu on Thursday.The Chief Minister visited the Sri Sarguru Appa Paithiyam Swamigal temple in Salem, as well as the Subramania Swamy temple in Tiruchendur and...

Amaravati, March 18 Andhra Pradesh CEO Vivek Yadav held a training program for deputy district election officers on the upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll at the Secretariat on Wednesday."The Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh, conducted a training program...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 17 Kerala Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U Kelkar lodged a complaint with the cyber police on Tuesday regarding a widely circulated fake audio message related to the training of election officials ahead of the April 9 Kerala Assembly elections.The purported audio...

Jaipur, March 16: Innovations introduced by the Rajasthan Election Department to strengthen the electoral process and make it more transparent and voter-centric are drawing national attention, an official said.The technological initiatives and administrative reforms implemented during the...

The Election Commission of India announced today that elections for the Assembly in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, and Tamil Nadu will be held in a single phase, while polling in West Bengal will take place in two phases. Announcing the election schedule in New Delhi, Chief Election Commissioner...

New Delhi, March 15 Elections to the assemblies in Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry will be held on a single day, April 9, in Tamil Nadu on April 23, and in two phases in West Bengal on April 23 and 29, while votes will be counted for all polls on May 4, the Election Commission announced on Sunday...

New Delhi, March 15 A total of 17.4 crore voters are eligible to participate in the upcoming assembly elections in four states – Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, and Kerala, and one Union Territory, Puducherry, to elect 824 MLAs, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said here on Sunday...

Bhubaneswar, March 10 Ahead of launching the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Odisha on April 1, the Election Commission of India organized a four-day state-level training program for election officials on Tuesday.The SIR is a comprehensive voter list revision designed to...

Puducherry, March 10 The Election Commission's Special Observer, Pratap Singh, held a meeting on Tuesday with officials from enforcement agencies to assess Puducherry's preparedness for the upcoming assembly elections.A release from the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Puducherry, P Jawhar...

Kolkata, March 8 Three assembly constituencies bordering West Bengal's Cooch Behar district – Dinhata, Sitai, and Sitalkuchi – together account for the highest number of voters whose names are currently "under review" in the district, election officials said.According to the Chief Electoral...

Chennai, February 25 – With assembly elections scheduled in April and May across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Assam, and the Union Territory of Puducherry, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar is set to undertake a crucial two-day visit to Puducherry and Tamil Nadu to review poll...

The administration in Goalpara has begun preparations for the upcoming Assembly elections. The district has a total of 1,010 polling stations.District Commissioner and District Election Officer, Pradeep Timung, along with other election officials, inspected the polling stations located along...

Ranchi, February 23 – Sixty-two percent of the over 43 lakh voters in Jharkhand exercised their franchise in the civic polls for 48 urban local bodies on Monday, election officials said.There were minor incidents of violence, including an incident where two people were injured, but the...

Ranchi, February 23 Around 12 percent voter turnout was recorded by 9 am in the civic polls to 48 urban local bodies in Jharkhand on Monday, an election official said.Voting, which commenced at 7 am, is underway amid tight security. It will continue until 5 pm, he said."A voter turnout of 12...

Ranchi, February 22 Voting is taking place for 48 urban local bodies (ULBs) across Jharkhand on Monday, with over 43 lakh voters eligible to decide the fate of over 6,000 candidates, an election official said.Polling began at 7 am and will continue until 5 pm, he said.Over 43.43 lakh voters...

Guwahati, February 18 Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar said on Wednesday that the Special Revision (SR) was conducted in Assam with the sole motive of including all eligible voters and excluding ineligible voters from the electoral rolls.Addressing a press conference at the end...