Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, will hold a virtual meeting with all Election Commission of India (ECI)-appointed poll observers for West Bengal on Wednesday to discuss the current polling booths’ infrastructure in the state for the forthcoming two-phase assembly elections scheduled later this month. An insider from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said the Commission is not satisfied with the polling booths’ infrastr…
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Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) With the judicial adjudication process for voters in West Bengal concluding after midnight on Monday, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has estimated that the total number of deleted voters in West Bengal has risen to approximately 91 lakh.However, the number might increase nominally in due course after the ECI arrives at the final figure, with the process of putting e-signatures by the judicial officers completed for a small percentage of the total number of cases t…
Thiruvananthapuram, April 6 (IANS) With the clock ticking down to polling day, the state will enter a tightly regulated 48-hour “silence period” beginning Tuesday (April 7) evening, as authorities move to ensure a free and fair electoral process.Kerala goes to the polls on Thursday to elect 140 new legislators, and counting of votes will take place on May 4.Chief Electoral Officer Dr Rathan U. Kelkar announced on Monday that all forms of public campaign activity will come to a halt at 6 p.m. on …
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) Kolkata Police on Monday evening sent a notice for interrogation to Trinamool Congress MLA Ratna Chatterjee, who is the party’s candidate this time as well, over an incident of vandalism at a local office of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Behala (Paschim) Assembly constituency in the southern outskirts of Kolkata. Earlier in the day, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against her at the local Parnasree Police Station under Behala (Paschim) Assembl…
Thiruvananthapuram, April 6 (IANS) In a refreshing and unconventional push to boost voter turnout ahead of the April 9 Assembly elections, Kerala’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Rathan U Kelkar, has struck a chord with the youth, quite literally.A lively dance video featuring the senior IAS officer has gone viral across social media platforms, adding a rhythmic twist to the Election Commission’s voter awareness campaign in the state which goes to the polls on Thursday to elect 140 new legis…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) In view of the forthcoming West Bengal Assembly polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday approved the creation of 4,660 auxiliary polling stations in areas where the number of voters has exceeded 1200. ECI has also approved the shifting of 321 polling stations for the convenience of the voters.With the setting of the 4,660 auxiliary polling stations, the number of polling stations, including auxiliary ones, will be 85,379 for the forthcoming two-phase Ass…
Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) Kolkata Police on Friday issued summons for interrogation to two Trinamool Congress councillors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in connection with the prolonged tension outside the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, in central Kolkata, following protest demonstrations by ruling party activists that began on Tuesday and continued till Thursday.The two councillors summoned are Santi Ranjan Kundu from Ward 32 and Sachin Kumar Singh from Ward…
Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) The probe team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), entrusted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to investigate the case of harassment of seven judicial adjudication officers in minority-dominated Malda district in West Bengal, will reach Kaliachak later in the day and will first talk to the affected officers.At the time the report was filed, the NIA had yet to specify either the details of the probe team or their next course of investigation in the matter. …
Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) An FIR has been filed against six people in connection with the disturbance in front of the state’s Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office on Tuesday, said the police on Thursday. Two Trinamool councillors of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) are among them.According to the police, an FIR has been filed at the Hare Street police station against Kolkata Municipality councillor Shantiranjan Kundu of ward number 32 and councillor Sachin Singh of ward number 36. Apart f…
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday took serious exception to an incident in West Bengal’s Malda district where judicial officers deputed for work relating to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were allegedly gheraoed and attacked, observing that it was a “brazen attempt” to browbeat the judiciary and a direct challenge to the authority of the apex court. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Panc…