Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of marking several alive voters dead in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.”Some of these voters are here with us today. The Commission should feel ashamed that it had marked voters who are alive as dead in the SIR process. But today they are here to prove that they are still alive. The ECI is acting as an agent of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is itself a sh…
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Bengaluru, Feb 17 (IANS) In view of the upcoming elections to the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) and local bodies in Karnataka, a delegation of Congress leaders, led by Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar, met the State Election Commissioner G.S. Sangreshi on Tuesday and submitted a memorandum seeking rectification of errors in the voter list revision.The delegation included Ministers Ramalinga Reddy and Dinesh Gundu Rao, former Congress MP D.K. Suresh, MLAs Rizwan Arshad and A.C. Srinivas…
Belagavi (Karnataka), Jan 19 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday said the Congress would never indulge in politics over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process being carried out by the Election Commission, but its only concern was to ensure that genuine voters were not excluded from the electoral rolls.He was speaking to reporters in Belagavi.Responding to reports that nearly three crore voters in the state had not been mapped as part of the SIR process being undertaken b…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra on Saturday launched a sharp attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that she has transformed ‘Sonar Bangla’ (Golden Bengal) into ‘Bhay Bangla’ (Bengal of fear). He also accused her of indulging in what he described as divisive appeasement politics.He further said that the “TMC stands for ‘Tushtikaran’ (appeasement), Mafia, and Crime by infiltrators”.Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters in New…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President and Rajya Sabha MP, Samik Bhattacharya, on Tuesday, filed a public interest litigation at a division bench led by the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, Sujoy Paul, seeking the court’s intervention for ensuring security at all polling booths for the Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year. “For the past many years, there had not been a single instance of absolutely peaceful voting in West Bengal. What …
Panaji, Jan 12 (IANS) Former Indian Navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash on Monday appreciated the outpouring of concern over his SIR-related tribulations, reiterating the need to revise the form for the electoral roll exercise and deploy “fully trained” booth-level officers (BLOs).“While I appreciate the outpouring of concern, my rank & service are not relevant & I am bound by EC rules like any other citizen. However, @ECIVEEP needs to consider: (a) revising SIR form to capture more in…
Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday said it will not tolerate any intimidation of electoral officers, including Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs), Booth-Level Officers (BLOs) and election observers engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal.According to sources in the Commission, the message was conveyed clearly to the Trinamool Congress delegation of MPs led by the…