Dharamshala, June 5 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Friday arrived in Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamshala and interacted with election officials and Booth Level Officers (BLOs). CEC Gyanesh Kumar spoke to BLOs and appreciated their efforts in updating electoral rolls and maintaining the purity of the voters’ list.The CEC’s visit comes at a time when state election officials have begun preparations for Assembly elections expected to be held in November 2027 to elect all 68 members….
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New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls will commence in Odisha from Saturday, with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) launching a door-to-door verification across the state to distribute enumeration forms, assist residents in filling them out, and collect the completed forms.Speaking to reporters, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) R.S. Gopalan said on Friday that the house-to-house verification process beginning from May 30 will be completed by June 28. He said…
Bhubaneswar, May 29 (IANS) The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls will commence in Odisha from Saturday, with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) launching a door-to-door verification across the state from May 30 to distribute enumeration forms, assist residents in filling them out, and collect the completed forms. Speaking to media persons, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) R.S. Gopalan said on Friday that the house-to-house verification process beginning from May 30 will be completed …
Bengaluru, May 25 (IANS) Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President D.K. Shivakumar on Monday called for collective efforts to protect citizens’ voting rights amid concerns surrounding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Speaking to reporters after participating in the ‘Congress Nade, Mata Rakshane Kade’ (Congress March for Protection of Votes) programme organised by the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) in Devanahalli, Shivakumar said no citizen s…
Bengaluru, May 24 (IANS) The Karnataka Congress is set to hold a crucial meeting on Sunday evening to deliberate on objections and concerns surrounding the SIR process, as the party is preparing both political and legal strategies over the issue. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 4 p.m. at a private resort located on the outskirts of Bengaluru. It will be led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, and senior AICC leader Randeep Surjewala.According to party…
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…
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 …