The Congress' plea sought quashing and declaring as "void" the circulars issued by the Election Commission making available the NOTA option
The BJP has also approached the Election Commission seeking removal of the NOTA option in the upcoming Rajya Sabha election in Gujarat.
The party alleged that the providing NOTA option would render the system of proportional representation "nugatory and otiose."
Over 49,000 voters opted for the None of The Above (NOTA) option in the municipal elections, with people in North Delhi areas exercising it the most.
In part 1, we looked at the vote share, strike rate & the performance of both the major alliances in reserved seats. In this piece, we look at the victory margin, impact of NOTA etc.The
New Delhi: Nearly 2.5 per cent voters in Bihar opted the 'None Of The Above' (NOTA) button which is placed as the last option on the electronic voting machine.According to figures made available by the
New Delhi: The Election Commission has finally approved a symbol for the NOTA (None Of The Above) option on Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).A small ballot paper with a black cross on it will be the
New Delhi: Thousand of students Friday voted to elect new student unions in Delhi University and the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here.By the end of polling, both campuses were littered with paper pamphlets and empty
New Delhi: The demand for Aam Aadmi Party to contest upcoming Assembly polls in Haryana again came to the fore today when some of its volunteers questioned the party leadership's decision in the matter, asking
Mumbai: Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan has questioned the relevance of recently introduced NOTA voting option in a democratic system while describing it as “non-sense” and waste of time. “What is this None-of-The-Above (NOTA) non-sense? I
Lucknow: Over 5.91 lakh voters in Uttar Pradesh chose to refuse all the candidates who were in the fray by opting Election Commission's maiden choice given to them “None of the Above” with maximum number
Shillong: Meghalaya emerged with the highest percentage of voters who chose the NOTA option available with the EVMs introduced for the first time, an election official said today.As many as 2.8 per cent of the
Mumbai: After being at the receiving end of carcinogenic smoke from the Mulund dumping ground for over a decade, over ten thousand residents of Hari Om Nagar housing societies have decided to go for None-Of-The-Above
The final episode of Satyamev Jayate, the popular Sunday TV show hosted by actor Aamir Khan, on March 30 focussed on criminalization of politics. It presented data from the Lok Sabha elections of 2004 and
New Delhi: Hundreds of government employees here warned that they would consider using the provision of None Of The Above (NOTA) in the voting option during Lok Sabha elections if pension benefits that prevailed prior
Chennai: The Election Commission yesterday sought time in the Madras High court to reply on a PIL seeking a direction to ECI to develop a symbol to denote NOTA option on the voting machine as
Manali: Voters of the remote but picturesque Lahaul and Spiti valleys of Himachal Pradesh want justice for the environment. They say upcoming projects in the state, mainly in the hydropower sector, are not only threatening
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