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Plea in SC pushes for voters’ right to use NOTA for unopposed candidate. What the law & petition say

Petition by a Delhi legal think tank wants SC to declare Section 53(2) of RP Act, 1951 unconstitutional. It says the provision defeats the right to cast a neutral or negative vote.

NOTA not an excuse to evade responsibility. We must choose our politicians carefully

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

NOTA hasn’t made elections ‘pure’, nullify poll if it gets maximum votes, says new plea in SC

Acting on Ashwani Kumar Upadhyay’s plea, SC has issued notices to Centre & EC, seven years after it introduced the NOTA button as a ‘basic right’ of voters.

I’m a traditional BJP-voting industrialist. Narendra Modi made me vote NOTA

It’s rare for an industrialist to speak out against the government, but Umang Agarwal says the environment of fear is coming in the way of progress.

Why this Modi voter chose NOTA this election

There has been a rise in the NOTA sentiment this Lok Sabha election. Here is one account of a NOTA voter.

No contradiction between seeing BJP as threat to India & voting NOTA this election

NOTA option is ‘No Till An Alternative’ for us – a limited and last resort action this election.

Is it right to shame NOTA voters and those who won’t vote?

NOTA or none of the above is the option given to voters to reject the candidates in her/his constituency.

BJP & RSS spooked as more voters pick NOTA

ADR expects more NOTA votes in Lok Sabha elections as there is disenchantment & RSS has launched a campaign against the option.

5 reasons why Haryana municipal polls today were unlike any other

The vital civic body elections are being held in the state’s five big cities with a number of electoral innovations.

NOTA is outscoring some political heavyweights across India

NOTA has got more votes than parties such as BSP, SP & CPI(M) in some state polls, but under current laws, even a 99% NOTA vote can't defeat a candidate.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.