Kolkata, Jan 24 (IANS) The District Magistrate, also the District Electoral Officer, of Murshidabad district in West Bengal on Saturday afternoon finally lodged an FIR against the Trinamool Congress legislator from the Farakka Assembly constituency, who has been accused of leading party activists in vandalism at a centre for hearings on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list at Farakka over a week ago.However, the FIR was registered almost 48 hours after the deadline set by the Election…
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New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) President of India Droupadi Murmu will on Sunday kick off celebrations on the 16th National Voters’ Day (NVD-2026) by handing over Electors Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) to the newly-enrolled young electors, an official said on Saturday.This year, the theme of the event is ‘My India, My Vote’ with the tagline, “Citizen at the Heart of Indian Democracy”.President Murmu will preside over the function as the Chief Guest and Union Minister of State for Law and Justice (Indepen…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday directed that the names of persons excluded from the draft electoral rolls in Kerala following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) be made publicly available both at local offices and on the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) official website.A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the ongoing SIR process in the state.During the hearing, the petitioner’…
Lucknow, Jan 6 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh electors whose names have not appeared in the draft electoral rolls published on Tuesday have time till February 6 for filing applications for inclusion in the voter list, Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said on Tuesday.The draft rolls published on Tuesday as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) carry names of 12.55 crore eligible voters while names of nearly 2.89 crore electors have been removed, he said.If a voter’s name is not found in the dra…
New Delhi/Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday accused Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar of not giving any proper answer to the questions raised by the party delegation of MPs led by him on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal during a meeting at the Election Commission of India (ECI) headquarters in Delhi.“Last time in November, when we met the CEC and highlighted our points related to …