Ranchi, May 29 (IANS) Political activity has intensified in Jharkhand ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections for two seats scheduled to be held on June 18. Congress leaders held a nearly three-hour-long meeting with Chief Minister Hemant Soren at his residence here on Friday to deliberate on seat-sharing and candidate selection.During the meeting, discussions centred on strategies to be adopted to ensure the victory of alliance nominees in both seats. However, no final consensus could be reached in …
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Shillong, May 29 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Dr B.D.R. Tiwari said on Friday that polling for the election to one Rajya Sabha seat from the state will be held on June 18, with vote counting scheduled later the same day. The announcement was made after a meeting convened by the CEO with representatives of various political parties at the Main Secretariat Building in Shillong to brief them on the election process and statutory requirements.According to the election schedule, the…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Opposition leaders, particularly the Congress, on Wednesday targeted the BJP, alleging that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls had been misused for the benefit of one political party. Further, they questioned that if the deleted voters regain their right to vote after filing appeals, will the elections which have already been conducted, be still considered valid?The response came after the Supreme Court upheld the Election Commission of India’s (EC…
Lucknow, May 27 (IANS) Islamic religious scholars on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court judgment on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, saying no one should now have any objection to the electoral process.The apex court on Wednesday upheld the Election Commission of India’s decision to undertake an SIR of electoral rolls, saying that the voter revision exercise was within the constitutional and statutory powers of the poll body and was aimed at preserving the integrity of the …
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict upholding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and asserted that Opposition parties should stop using the process as a justification for their repeated electoral defeats. The reaction came after the apex court upheld the decision of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to conduct the SIR exercise, ruling that the revision of electoral rolls falls within the constitutiona…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), being conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and questioned the Congress party’s duplicity and also its brazenness in whipping up public sentiments over fake and frivolous issues. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, BJP National Spokesperson and MP Sudhanshu Trivedi described the verdict as “a complete defeat …
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to undertake a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with advocates appearing in the matter saying the apex court had effectively endorsed the legality and fairness of the exercise while rejecting allegations levelled against the poll body.Speaking to IANS, Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay said, “The Supreme Court has dismissed all allegations made against the Special Inte…
Bhubaneswar, May 27 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday announced the schedule for the by-elections to fill the vacancy in the Rajya Sabha from Odisha following the resignation of Debashish Samantaray.Samantaray resigned on Monday from the BJD and the Rajya Sabha.According to the schedule announced by the ECI on Wednesday, the notification for the by-election will be issued on June 1. The last date for filing nominations has been fixed as June 8, while the scrutiny of nomi…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday strongly criticised remarks questioning the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, asserting that allegations accusing the apex court of abandoning its constitutional responsibilities were “reckless, irresponsible and corrosive to institutional faith”.The reaction came after the Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Election Commission of India to undertake the SIR exercise, ruli…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the Election Commission of India’s decision to undertake a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, holding that the revision exercise was within the constitutional and statutory powers of the poll body and was aimed at preserving the integrity of the electoral process.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi ruled that the impugned SIR exercise did not violate the provisions of the…