Mumbai, May 26 (IANS) The Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar) president and Deputy Chief Minister, Sunetra Pawar, on Tuesday asked party ministers, legislators, and office-bearers to take the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) seriously and called for greater participation to ensure no eligible voters are excluded from the electoral rolls. She further directed that the Block Level Agents (BLAs) should cooperate with the Block Level Officers (BLOs) in all the 288 Assembly constituencies during …
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Patna, May 26 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced elections for 10 vacant seats of the Bihar Legislative Council, with polling scheduled for June 18.According to the notification issued by the Commission on Tuesday, one by-election will be conducted for the seat vacated by former Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after his election to the Rajya Sabha. And biennial elections will be held for nine seats whose members are set to complete their terms on June 28.The nine outgo…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested 15 protesters in a special operation conducted in West Bengal’s Malda district in connection with last month’s road blockade incidents and the alleged illegal detention of judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of electoral rolls ahead of the Assembly elections in the state. The NIA had taken over the investigation following directions from the Election Commission of India after the …
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested 15 more accused in connection with the April 1 incident in which seven judicial officers were held hostage during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) phase at Mothabari in the minority-dominated Malda district of West Bengal.According to sources, the arrests of these 15 accused took place following a massive raid and search operations by NIA sleuths in different locations in Malda district that started on Monday night a…
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…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Monday kicked off a five-day workshop on “Risk Management and Electoral Resilience” for delegates of 12 nations at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), said an official. The workshop on “Risk Management and Electoral Resilience” from May 25 to 29 has been organised by the Election Commission of India (ECI), in collaboration with International IDEA under India’s Chairship Pr…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The process has begun to recall those Kolkata Police personnel who were transferred to punishment postings in districts ten years ago, in 2016, by the previous Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government for reportedly playing an impartial role in the Assembly elections that year by strictly following the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s guidelines and ignoring the verbal directions of the ruling party leaders.An insider from the city police said that as many as 82 ju…
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) Results for the Falta Assembly repoll in West Bengal have been declared at the end of all the rounds of counting on Sunday, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Debangshu Panda being declared elected by a landslide margin of 1,09,021 votes. While Panda secured a total of 1,49,666 votes, CPI(M) candidate Sambhunath Kurmi came in the second position, securing a total of 40,645 votes.Congress candidate Abdur Razzak came in the third position, receiving 10,084 votes…
Kolkata, May 24 IANS) Counting has begun for the Falta Assembly constituency in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district from 8 a.m. on Sunday amid tight security arrangements.The repolling for the Assembly Constituency, as per the direction of the Election Commission of India (ECI), was conducted on May 21. There will be a total of 21 rounds of counting, and according to the insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, the result will be absolutely clear by 1 p.m….