electoral process

Bengaluru, March 18 Amid intense lobbying, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Wednesday that the selection of candidates for the April 9 assembly bypolls to the Bagalkote and Davanagere Assembly constituencies will be decided by the Congress high command, with consultations underway...

Puducherry, March 18 – Even as negotiations with the Congress party remained inconclusive, the DMK has moved forward with the electoral process by filing nominations for the upcoming Puducherry Assembly elections, signaling growing urgency within the alliance.It is expected that the DMK and...

Kolkata, March 17 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the Election Commission, alleging that it was acting on behalf of the BJP and warned that both the poll panel and the saffron party would be responsible if any incident occurs during the election period.Addressing...

Kolkata, March 17 West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the EC, alleging that senior administrative and police officers were being transferred ahead of the assembly polls at the behest of the BJP.She warned that the poll body and the...

Kolkata, March 17 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Tuesday the appointment of 557 general observers, 188 police observers, and 366 expenditure observers for the upcoming elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry, along with by-elections for eight...

Chennai, March 17 – The Madras High Court on Tuesday reserved orders on petitions challenging the eligibility criteria in a major surveillance tender floated for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.The case has drawn attention due to concerns that the conditions could restrict fair...

New Delhi, March 17 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has deployed a total of 1,111 Central Observers across five states and a Union Territory, along with bye-elections in six states, to ensure the conduct of free, fair, and inducement-free elections, officials said on Tuesday.According...

New Delhi, March 16 Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to the Election Commission on Monday about the Rajya Sabha elections in Haryana, alleging that there was a clear attempt to interfere with the integrity of the election, which must be addressed.Along with his letter, Kharge...

Kolkata, March 16 – The judicial review process has been completed for almost one-third of the cases referred under the "logical discrepancy" category during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal said on Monday...

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...

New Delhi/Guwahati, March 16 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday ordered the transfer and posting of five IAS officers as District Election Officers (DEOs) in Assam as part of measures to ensure the smooth conduct of the upcoming Assembly elections in the state.In an official...

New Delhi, March 16 The Election Commission appointed former bureaucrat Manjeet Singh as the special observer for the upcoming elections in Assam, with the responsibility of keeping the election panel updated on the state's preparedness for the polls.Polling in Assam is scheduled for April 9...

Chennai, March 16 Tamil Nadu’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Archana Patnaik clarified on Monday that candidates contesting the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections will effectively have only five working days to file their nomination papers, despite the Election Commission announcing an...

New Delhi, March 16 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) appointed a special observer on Monday to oversee the upcoming Assam Assembly elections, while also announcing the official schedule for the polls covering all 126 constituencies in the state.According to an official communication...

New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, March 16 AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal accused the Election Commission of bias on Monday, alleging that the schedule for the Assembly elections was strategically engineered to undermine the Congress party by restricting its campaign window and limiting the...

Kolkata, March 16 The Election Commission (EC) has cancelled the contract of the agency that supplied webcams during the 2021 West Bengal assembly and 2024 Lok Sabha elections after detecting major irregularities in the footage, and has selected three new vendors for the supply of equipment, a...

Kolkata, March 16 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at multiple locations in West Bengal on Monday as part of an investigation into the operations of an alleged illegal call centre, officials said.Around 10 premises in Siliguri, Howrah, Bidhannagar, and Durgapur were raided...

Kolkata, March 16 – Uncertainty is looming over the transfer of several bureaucrats and police officers in West Bengal, ordered just around an hour before the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the two-phase polling dates in the state on Sunday afternoon.The uncertainty stems from...

Kolkata, March 16 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has ordered a major administrative reshuffle in West Bengal, appointing senior IAS officer Dushyant Nariala as the new Chief Secretary just a day after the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) came into force for the 2026 Assembly elections.The...

New Delhi, March 15 The election schedule for the five assemblies announced on Sunday has brought about several surprises – fewer phases, a condensed 20-day voting period, but longer gaps between the three polling days and a delayed counting.The previous round of elections for these five...