The biennial election to four Rajya Sabha seats from Odisha, among a total of 55 seats from 17 states, will be held on March 26, the Election Commission (EC) announced on Tuesday.
The Election Commission of India on Tuesday refuted Opposition's allegations regarding movement of EVMs purportedly to replace the polled voting machines in the strongrooms.
A BJP polling agent was arrested for allegedly trying to influence voters at a polling booth in Haryana's Palwal after a video of the purported act went viral, prompting the Election Commission to order re-polling.
In his PIL, Chennithala demanded a probe alleging that a serious postal vote fraud has been practised by "pro-government" Police Association office bearers at the behest of top-level government functionaries in connection with Lok Sabha election.
“We are toothless, we are powerless, we issue notices, then advisory and on repeated violation, we file complaint, this is their power,” the Election Commission had told the Supreme Court earlier.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna issued notice to the EC on the plea filed an NRI Yoga teacher based in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Centre on Wednesday opposed in the Supreme Court the concerns raised by the Election Commission on issuing electoral bonds and justified the changes in law saying it was "a pioneer step" to bring poll reforms "ensuring transparency" and "accountability" in political funding.
The Election Commission on Tuesday called the railways approach towards enforcing the model code of conduct "lackadaisical" after allegations that poll norms were violated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's picture on tickets and the slogan "Main Bhi Chowkidar" on tea cups.
The bench, while taking on record the submissions of the ECI's counsel, disposed of the petition and observed that the court cannot determine the timing of elections and it was for the poll panel to decide.
The Election Commission of India on Wednesday formed a committee to examine if Prime Minister Narendra Modi violated the model code of conduct (MCC) when earlier in the day he announced the successful test of anti-satellite missile (A-Sat) in his address to the nation.
The Election Commission Monday issued a notification signed by President Ram Nath Kovind for the first phase of the election.
Also, there are around 47 complaints dropped by Returning Officers (ROs) after an investigation. There were 28 complaints which were correct and action have been taken on them.
The polling will be held on April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19 for 543 Lok Sabha seats across the country in which nearly 90 crore voters would be eligible to vote, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said.
The poll panel has instructed that end-to-end movement of all reserve EVMs and VVPATs shall be carefully monitored at all times
The Bombay High Court issued a notice on Friday to the Election Commission of India (ECI) over a PIL seeking directions to make voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) devices more transparent and error-free.
ECI writes to Delhi Police requests to lodge an FIR & investigate the statement made by Syed Shuja
The EC has asked the party to show cause as to why action shouldn't be taken against it for failure to follow its lawful directions, reported news agency ANI.
While all required EVMs -- 13.95 lakh ballot units and 9.3 lakh control units -- will be delivered by September 30, VVPATs will also be delivered well before the end of November.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: “All VVPATs shall be delivered well within the time required for making pre-poll preparations for 2019 Lok Sabha elections,” ECI said.
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