Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, on Tuesday morning said that the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, scheduled to be held later this year, will be totally fair and violence-free.“I convey my greetings to all my brothers and sisters in West Bengal. I assure you that the Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year will be fair and violence-free. The voters will be able to cast their votes without any kind of fear and pressure,” Kuma…
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New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Tuesday the plea filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and several Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state.As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, a Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and comprising Justices R Mahadevan and Joymalya Bagchi will take up the petitions filed by Bane…
Bhopal, March 9 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh, on Monday, met the Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Shrivastava and submitted a memorandum, alleging that thousands of fake names had been added to the voter list in Bhopal’s Narela Assembly constituency. Singh said that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) is intended to purify the voter list by removing the names of deceased and il…
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) A delegation of the West Bengal unit of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), on Monday, appealed to the full Bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to conduct the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year in a single-phase.A three-member delegation of the West Bengal unit of the CPI(M), led by the party’s Politburo member and state secretary in West Bengal, Mohd Salim, on Monday morning, met the full Bench of the Commission …
Chennai, March 8 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu Election Department has redeployed 1,249 personnel from various government departments to strengthen preparations for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elections. The move is part of a broader effort to manage the increasing administrative and logistical workload expected in the months leading up to the polls.Officials said the redeployment has been carried out in continuation of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, wh…
Kolkata, March 7 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over President Droupadi Murmu’s displeasure earlier in the day regarding the West Bengal government allotting a smaller venue for the 9th International Santal Conference at Gossaipur in Darjeeling district, where the President was the chief guest.Addressing a sit-in protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) at Esplanade East in central Kolkata, whi…
Kolkata, March 7 (IANS) Completing the ongoing judicial adjudication of voters’ documents classified under the ‘logical discrepancy’ category under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal will take at least another month, if not more, according to estimates from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal.“The total number of ‘logical discrepancy’ cases referred for judicial adjudication was a little over 60 lakh. Till Friday night, the adjudication process h…
Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) About 7.5 lakh cases of judicial adjudication of voters’ documents classified under the “logical discrepancy” category have been completed till Friday evening, informed the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal.“A total of 200 more judicial officers from neighbouring Odisha and Jharkhand will be reaching West Bengal by Saturday morning. After a two-day training on Saturday and Sunday, they will be joining the judicial adjudication process…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) The West Bengal Congress unit, on Thursday, urged the Election Commission to announce the state Assembly election schedule only after all pending cases related to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the state’s electoral rolls are resolved. The state Congress has submitted a memorandum to the poll body seeking completion of the adjudication process for more than 60 lakh voters in the state before announcing the upcoming election. Addressing a press conference, Congr…
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) The office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has sent a detailed report to the Election Commission of India headquarters in New Delhi highlighting deliberate performance derelictions on the part of a section of electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.The CEO’s office has recommended disciplinary action for EROS and AEROs found guilty of de…