The poll body will meet one representative of every political party today to discuss the implementation of COVID norms for upcoming four phases of election.
With few days left for the state assembly elections in West Bengal, villagers in Midnapore cannot contain their excitement. Election fever is high as flags of political parties were set up in fields of Dherua village. BJP flags overpowered others in numbers and villagers are very much confident on the former's win in the upcoming election. Elections in West Bengal will be held in eight phases from March 27 to April 29.
Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal on October 19 said that if all concerned governments and parties come together, then air pollution in Delhi can be controlled in less than four years time.
Political parties have collected Rs 11,234 crore from unknown sources in the last 15 years, according to election watchdog, Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR).
Supreme Court directs political parties to upload on their websites the reasons for the selection of candidates with criminal antecedents.
The Election Commission has launched an online system to allow political parties track their applications for the registration with the poll panel on a real-time basis.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Centre and the Election Commission (EC) on a plea for barring political parties from having names with religious connotations and symbols similar to the national flag.
Of the 36 political parties, whose representatives were elected to the 17th Lok Sabha, 15 got fewer votes than NOTA. Many of these parties contested only a handful of seats.
A total of 13 parties managed to enter the Lok Sabha by bagging just one seat each, according to data available with the Election Commission.
As more and more political parties advertise on Facebook to reach out to maximum number of voters, the practice is creating new types of inequalities for campaigners and, in turn, posing new set of challenges for the regulators, warn researchers.
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to declare all registered and recognised political parties as "public authority" under the Right to Information Act.
Candidates need to declare their criminal antecedents to the EC before contesting an election: SC
Supreme Court directs all political parties to put all information about their candidates on their websites. SC also directs wider publicity, through print and electronic media, antecedents of candidates affiliated to political parties
The petitioner contended that the amendments to the FCRA were introduced with retrospective effect to overturn a Delhi High Court order holding the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress guilty of accepting donations from overseas companies.
The petitioner contended that the amendments to the FCRA were introduced with retrospective effect to overturn a Delhi High Court order holding the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress guilty of accepting donations from overseas companies.
Political parties collected over Rs 1,500 crore during the five state assembly elections held last year but spent just Rs 494 crore, according to an analysis by ADR.
The apex court was hearing a PIL seeking to restrain convicted persons from forming and holding posts in political parties for the period they are disqualified under the election law.
The Income Tax Department today cautioned people against indulging in illegal cash transactions including donating more than Rs 2000 to political parties.
The value of declared assets of BJP has increased from Rs 122.93 crore in 2004-05 to Rs 893.88 crore in 2015-16 while that of Congress has risen from Rs 167.35 crore to Rs 758.79 crore.
There is a need to keep non-serious parties out of the political system, and to ensure they do not misuse facilities like tax exemption, their registration should be regulated by law, a parliamentary panel has said.
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