A report on differences within the Election Commission has triggered a political row, with opposition leaders demanding action against CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
Electoral donations to Registered Unrecognised Political Parties have surged into thousands of crores, raising questions over opaque funding, weak compliance and regulators’ limited powers.
At conclave on ‘One Nation-One Election, Federalism and Citizenship’, former Election Commissioner raised several points regarding special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
The BJP has been celebrating the deletion of 27 lakh voters during the SIR in West Bengal under CEC Gyanesh Kumar, as the majority of them are from Muslim-dominated districts.
Soon after announcing assembly poll schedule Sunday, Election Commission transferred 44 IAS, IPS, other civil servants in 4 states, including Bengal, ‘without consulting state govt’.
A two-judge bench also asked petitioners against the Bihar Special Intensive Revision to file affidavits if any names had been wrongly removed or added in the final voters’ list.
On 15 December 1988, PM Rajiv Gandhi spoke in the Lok Sabha while introducing comprehensive electoral reforms, including lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, and introducing measures to protect secular values in elections.
Ghalibaf’s latest maths taunt for US draws on engineering principles, where stress on any structure is the load it bears divided by the strength supporting it. It’s also a response.
IAF chief Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh has ruled out a separate drone force, saying that UAVs must operate with fighters and other existing technology.
Modern India might have been conjured up in the image of Gandhi. But India was never a Gandhian state. Founders of the Republic, be it Nehru or Patel, nursed zero such notions.
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