Mumbai, July 27 (IANS) The office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Maharashtra, on Monday said that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) program of electoral rolls is currently underway across the state. Under this drive, voters currently enrolled in the voters’ list are required to fill out the enumeration form and submit it to their concerned Booth Level Officer (BLO), who will visit their residence by August 8, 2026. However, it is clarified that there is a strict prohibition of multip…
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New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Union Minister and BJP MP Suresh Gopi has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Kerala High Court’s refusal to dismiss, at the threshold, an election petition questioning his victory from the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency in the 2024 general elections. A Bench of Justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe on Monday adjourned the matter to August 31 after taking up Gopi’s special leave petition (SLP) challenging the April 1 judgment of the Kerala High Court. Gopi has chal…
New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a plea filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Somnath Bharti challenging the election of BJP MLA Satish Upadhyay from Delhi’s Malviya Nagar Assembly constituency.A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta granted leave and admitted Bharti’s special leave petition (SLP) against the January 17 judgment of the Delhi High Court dismissing his election petition.Bharti has challenged the High Court’s decision dismissing his …
New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday closed a batch of petitions challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu in view of its recent judgment upholding the revision exercise in Bihar. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana passed the order, observing that the issues raised in the Tamil Nadu petitions stood covered by its earlier judgment delivered in …
Datia, July 13 (IANS) Congress candidate and former MLA Ghanshyam Singh filed his nomination for the Datia Assembly bypoll on Monday, with senior party leaders rallying behind him and asserting that resentment within the BJP over the denial of a ticket to former minister Narottam Mishra would benefit the opposition.Senior Congress leaders, including Madhya Pradesh party chief Jitu Patwari, Leader of Opposition (LoP) Umang Singhar, former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh and former MLA Rajendra Bha…
Chikkaballapur (Karnataka), July 11 (IANS) A Pakistani woman married to an Indian national and her son have been arrested by the Bagepalli police in Karnataka’s Chikkaballapur district for allegedly staying in India illegally after their visas were not renewed following ‘Operation Sindoor’ and for allegedly obtaining Indian identity documents. An FIR has been lodged in the case.Chikkaballapur is located 75 kilometres north-east of Bengaluru city.The accused have been identified as Farha Naaz, a …
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to suspend the conviction of former Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti in the 1998 Rural Development Bank fraud case, denying him relief that could have restored his membership of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. A single-judge Bench of Justice Manoj Jain declined to suspend the conviction awarded to Bharti by a Special MP/MLA court, which had also sentenced him to three years’ imprisonment in the decades-old cooperative bank fra…
New Delhi/Bhopal, July 10 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed former Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti’s petition against his conviction in the 1998 Datia Cooperative Rural Development Bank fixed deposit (FD) fraud case, clearing the way for the Datia Assembly by-election in Madhya Pradesh to go ahead as scheduled. The High Court’s order means Bharti’s conviction and disqualification from the Madhya Pradesh Assembly will remain in force for now, ending the legal uncertainty over the bypol…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The Election Commission of India on Monday issued notifications for holding by-elections on July 30 to fill one vacancy each in the legislative Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Bihar, an official said. The three seats to be filled through the by-elections include: Datia in Madhya Pradesh, Manjalpur in Gujarat and Bankipur in Bihar, the official said.The results for the by-elections will be declared on August 3, the ECI said.With the issue of these notifications,…
Datia (Madhya Pradesh), July 6 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday announced the schedule for the bye-election to the Datia Assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh, with July 13 fixed as the last date for filing nominations and polling scheduled for July 30. The bypoll has become necessary following the disqualification of sitting Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti, whose Assembly seat fell vacant earlier this year.According to the notification issued by the Commission, scrutiny of…