Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) The West Bengal government has sent a panel of three Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers from the state cadre to the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the latter to appoint one of them as the new Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of the state.The erstwhile CEO of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, is currently the Chief Secretary of the state. He was appointed to that chair soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led new state cabinet under the leadership of t…
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Bhubaneswar, May 14 (IANS) In the wake of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) announcement regarding the conduct of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) Phase-III exercise in 16 states and three Union Territories, including Odisha, senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sasmit Patra on Thursday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, urging the ECI to ensure a transparent and error-free SIR process in Odisha commencing from May 30.In his letter, Patra dre…
New Delhi, May 14 (IANS) Describing voting as the first step for nation building, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Thursday called upon every citizen aged 18 years to become an elector and take part in the celebration of democracy. Releasing data related to record participation in the recently concluded Assembly elections, Gyanesh Kumar, in a message, said, “In accordance with the Constitution of India, electoral laws, rules and instructions issued there in, the Election Commission o…
Tirupati, May 10 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday visited the renowned Tirumala Venkateswara Temple in Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati along with his family and offered prayers to Lord Sri Venkateswara Swamy following the successful and peaceful conduct of the 2026 Assembly elections in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry.The Chief Election Commissioner, accompanied by his wife, Anuradha Kumar, paid obeisance at the temple on Sunday morning after overseeing…
Mumbai, May 8 (IANS) Shiv Sena MP, Sanjay Raut, on Friday took strong objection to US President Donald Trump’s move to congratulate Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, on the West Bengal Assembly election results, saying that these are state-level elections — an internal matter of India’s federal democracy and any external endorsement appears premature and misplaced.He went on to urge President Trump for a more informed and balanced view, given his emphasis on democratic values.In his post on X…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Taking aim at the Opposition, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday listed Congress-era actions, including the 1975 Emergency, and compared them with current committee-based selections for government agencies and institutions, adding that the public will understand as “people of India are not fools”. He launched a scathing attack on the Opposition over the allegations against the government agencies, the Election Commission, the media and the judicia…
New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) Congress MP Pramod Tiwari on Friday raised concerns over the Kolkata strongroom controversy, questioning the functioning of the Election Commission and alleging that repeated incidents could undermine democratic processes in the country.”There, the BJP is not in power, and people are able to raise their concerns. But wherever BJP-ruled governments exist, questions are being raised,” Tiwari told IANS. He added that he was not directly accusing anyone but pointed to a patte…
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) BJP candidate Agnimitra Paul on Thursday described the recently-concluded polling process in West Bengal as unprecedented, claiming that neither the state nor the country had witnessed such peaceful polling before, while urging all political parties to respect the final mandate.Speaking to IANS, Paul praised the conduct of the elections and credited the officials overseeing the process, including Chief Election Commissioner of India, Gyanesh Kumar, and West Bengal Chief …
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) The new body language of the personnel of West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police, which was evident in the two phases of state Assembly polls on April 23 and April 29, gives a clear indication of the inevitable change of regime in the state this time, said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s former national vice-president and the former state president Dilip Ghosh on Thursday.“In both the phases of polls, especially in the second phase on Wednesday, the central forces have…
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) The polling percentage in the second phase of elections for 142 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal on April 29 has been recorded at 92.47 till midnight, thus taking the overall average percentage in the two phases to a record high of 92.85.However, as clarified by insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, on Thursday morning, neither of these figures is final as tabulation will be available later in the day.The polling percentage fig…