Dehradun, May 24 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday chaired a review meeting here over preparations for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttarakhand, an official said. During the meeting held at the State Guest House in Bijapur, CEC Kumar said that the primary objective of SIR is to purify the voter list by identifying “absent, shifted, deceased, duplicate, and overseas voters”.The CEC appealed to all voters to provide latest passport size …
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Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) After the first round of counting for the repolling of the Falta Assembly constituency on Sunday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, Debnagshi Panda, is comfortably ahead of his closest opponents.As per available information from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, after the first round of counting, the total number of votes polled by the BJP candidate stands at 9,534, followed by CPI(M)’s Sambhunath Kurmi at 448 and Congress candidate Ab…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) Re-polling for the Falta Assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal concluded peacefully at 6 p.m. on Thursday, with no reports of violence, tension or electoral malpractice from any of the 285 polling booths.As per the statistics available from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, the polling percentage recorded till 5 p.m. stood at a high 86.11 per cent.“Since, at the end of the official polling time of 6 p.m., some vote…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) A significantly high voting of 60.43 per cent was recorded till 1 p.m. in a peaceful repolling for the Falta Assembly Constituency in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Thursday.The scorching summer heat could not dampen voters’ enthusiasm. Long queues were seen in front of the 285 polling booths, with voters waiting patiently for their turn. The atmosphere was peaceful even as the security forces were maintaining a strict vigil in Falta since polling started a…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) The re-polling in the Falta Assembly constituency in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas is set to commence on Thursday. Fresh voting will be conducted across all 285 polling stations in the constituency.The voting will take place from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.The results will be declared on May 24.Polling for Falta was conducted in the second phase of the recently concluded two-phase Assembly elections on April 29. However, on that day, several complaints of alleged electoral ma…
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) Last-minute preparations are in full swing at the dispersal centres ahead of the crucial re-polling for the Falta Assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas on Thursday.Polling personnel are all set, and deployment activities are progressing smoothly, insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said on Wednesday.“Continuous monitoring arrangements are in place to ensure that every aspect of the polling process remains smooth, all geared to…
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) The West Bengal government has sent a panel of three Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers from the state cadre to the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the latter to appoint one of them as the new Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of the state.The erstwhile CEO of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, is currently the Chief Secretary of the state. He was appointed to that chair soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led new state cabinet under the leadership of t…
Agartala/Shillong, May 16 (IANS) Following the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) announcement, seven Northeastern states have begun preparations for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, officials said on Saturday. The ECI on Thursday (May 14) announced the launch of the SIR of electoral rolls in a phased manner across 16 states and three Union Territories. The poll panel stated that the Phase-III schedule of the SIR would be a major nationwide exercise aimed at enhancing…
Hyderabad, May 15 (IANS) Claiming that the Special Intensive Revision led to a change of government in West Bengal, Telangana Congress president Mahesh Kumar Goud on Friday urged the state Chief Electoral Officer not to carry out the process in a hurry. A delegation of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee leaders led by Mahesh Kumar Goud called on Chief Electoral Officer C. Sudharshan Reddy and submitted a memorandum, urging him to conduct the Special Intensive Revision in a fair and impartia…
Bhubaneswar, May 14 (IANS) In the wake of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) announcement regarding the conduct of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) Phase-III exercise in 16 states and three Union Territories, including Odisha, senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sasmit Patra on Thursday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, urging the ECI to ensure a transparent and error-free SIR process in Odisha commencing from May 30.In his letter, Patra dre…