We cannot absolve the Election Commission of all the blame, but we must emphasise that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee must shoulder the lion’s share of the responsibility for these exclusions.
Rapping the WB govt, the top court called the incident & lack of prompt action 'an abdication of duty', while issuing show cause notices to chief secy, home secy, DGP & others.
Letter, dated 19 March 2019, had guidelines on candidate disclosure rules, was sent to all parties in Kerala. EC said it was a ‘clerical error’ & that the letter had already been withdrawn.
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’.
CJI Surya Kant-led bench says it was forced to make the arrangement in view of the blame game of allegations & counter-allegations between two constitutional functionaries.
EC’s submissions were in response to a petition by the Sanatani Sangsad, which has come into the limelight for seeking deployment of the CAPF in West Bengal for the SIR process.
The theme for the conference is 'Democracy for an inclusive, peaceful, resilient, and sustainable world'. US, Mauritius, Brazil, and South Africa among participants.
Electoral competition now appears dominated by welfare delivery and governance metrics, but ideology has not disappeared in Tamil Nadu. Instead, it has become strategic.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan says India’s nuclear capability will not be considered a separate domain, but part of cognitive war in multi domain operations.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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