Dharamshala, June 5 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Friday arrived in Himachal Pradesh’s Dharamshala and interacted with election officials and Booth Level Officers (BLOs). CEC Gyanesh Kumar spoke to BLOs and appreciated their efforts in updating electoral rolls and maintaining the purity of the voters’ list.The CEC’s visit comes at a time when state election officials have begun preparations for Assembly elections expected to be held in November 2027 to elect all 68 members….
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Amaravati, June 4 (IANS) The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will organise three major public meetings in Andhra Pradesh to mark two years of the NDA governments at the Centre and in the state. These meetings, to be organised at Tirupati, Amaravati and Visakhapatnam between June 9 and 15, will be addressed by leaders of Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Jana Sena Party (JSP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).The decision was taken at the coordination meeting of the NDA partners on Thursday….
Bengaluru, June 4 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Thursday said that no citizen should lose their voting rights during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process and directed officials to ensure complete awareness and proper documentation. He was speaking after chairing a high-level meeting at Vidhana Soudha with senior bureaucrats, including additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries, district in-charge secretaries, senior police officers of the rank of Add…
Hyderabad, June 3 (IANS) AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said that Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls will be used to create a permanent class of excluded Indians. He claimed that 6.5 crore names were deleted from the electoral rolls under SIR in 13 states and union territories.The Hyderabad MP took to ‘X’ to slam the Centre for the proposal to constitute a committee to study the exclusions and build a permanent system for the identification, detention, and dep…
Hyderabad, June 2 (IANS) Telangana Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) C. Sudharsan Reddy said on Tuesday that 68.30 per cent of the mapping has been completed across the state under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. He assessed the preparedness for Phase III of the SIR at a review meeting attended by senior officials from the Election Commission of India (ECI), including Principal Secretary Avinash Kumar and Under Secretary Sanjay Kumar.Commissioner of Greater Hyderabad Municip…
Chandigarh, June 2 (IANS) With pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) mapping at 84.62 per cent, Punjab Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anindita Mitra on Tuesday provided lists of electors who remained unmapped during the pre-mapping exercise to representatives of political parties. She informed them that the lists shared pertained to data of unmapped voters as of May 27, though mapping of some of these voters may already have been completed subsequently. She urged all political parties to actively …
Agra, June 2 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Tuesday visited the renowned Kailash Mahadev Temple in Agra along with his family and offered prayers according to traditional rituals. During his visit, he emphasised the importance of maintaining clean electoral rolls, stating that they form the foundation of transparent and fair elections. Speaking to reporters, Gyanesh Kumar said, “After the successful conduct of elections in five states, my wife Anuradha and I have com…
Chandigarh, June 1 (IANS) The Punjab Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, on Monday took a step to strengthen the state’s election machinery ahead of the forthcoming legislative Assembly elections by approving an amendment to the service rules of the Election Department. The decision removes long-pending administrative bottlenecks, facilitates a smooth, hassle-free Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, and paves the way to fill crucial vacancies to ensure adequate manpo…
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) A fresh Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved before the Supreme Court seeking greater transparency and procedural safeguards in the implementation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, days after the apex court upheld the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) nationwide revision exercise.The petition, filed by Congress leader Prasenjit Bose under Article 32 of the Constitution, does not challenge the legality of the SIR ex…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Sunday that the enumeration phase under the Special Intensive Revision – Phase III has started for Odisha, Mizoram, Sikkim and Manipur. An official said in a statement that the enumeration phase for Odisha, Mizoram, Sikkim and Manipur began on Saturday.”All eligible electors whose Enumeration Forms are received by the Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) on or before June 28, 2026, will be included in the Draft Electoral R…