Imphal/Aizawl/Gangtok, May 30 (IANS) Booth Level Officers (BLOs) on Saturday began house-to-house visits in Manipur, Mizoram, and Sikkim as part of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, being conducted in a phased manner across the country, officials said. Election officials in the three Northeastern states said that the month-long door-to-door exercise would continue till June 28. Prior to the launch of the field exercise, adequate train…
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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 …
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Monday, announced the appointment of Neelam Meena, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the West Bengal cadre of the 1998 batch, as the new Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal. The erstwhile CEO of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, is currently the state’s Chief Secretary.He was appointed to that position soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led new state Cabinet under the leadership of the state’s n…
Kochi, May 25 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan on Monday strongly defended the appointment of former Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U. Khelkar as his secretary and dismissed the controversy surrounding his recent visit to the Guruvayoor Sree Krishna temple.Speaking to the media after a special Cabinet meeting, Satheesan said he failed to understand the needless controversy over Khelkar’s appointment.He pointed out that Khelkar is an All India Service officer attached to Kerala and h…
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 …
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…