ELECTION COMMISSION

President arrives in Odisha on a 3-day visit

Right to vote must be respected: President

4:35 pm January 25, 2021

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind said on Monday that the right to vote must be respected, noting that people around the world have struggled a lot for it. Addressing the 11th National Voters’ Day Celebrations, Kovind said even in America, which is known to be one of the leading democracies in the world, people had to undertake decades of struggle to […]

Plea in SC to nullify election results if maximum votes in favour of NOTA

9:52 pm November 29, 2020

New Delhi: A PIL seeking directions to the Election Commission to nullify the election results and hold fresh polls if maximum votes have been polled in favour of NOTA in a particular constituency has been filed in the Supreme Court. The plea filed by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay has also sought directions […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Former CEC Quraishi bats for electoral reforms

9:27 pm November 16, 2020

New Delhi: Former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi has supported a ban on door-to-door campaigning by candidates in the ‘silence period’ to prevent allurement of voters using cash and liquor. He also batted for change in law to allow the Election Commission deregister a political party on various grounds, including repeated violation of the […]

Over 7 lakh Bihar voters opted for NOTA option

3:31 pm November 11, 2020

New Delhi: A little over seven lakh voters in Bihar used the ‘none of the above’ or NOTA option in the assembly elections, according to the Election Commission. Nitish Kumar-led NDA was back in power in Bihar on Wednesday with a slender majority. The ruling coalition won 125 seats in the 243-member state assembly against […]

Bihar vote count likely to end late tonight: EC

11:42 pm November 10, 2020

New Delhi: Counting of votes for the Bihar assembly elections will take longer than usual and continue till late in the night because of 63 per cent increase in the number of EVMs, the Election Commission said on Monday. Briefing reporters in the national capital as the counting progressed in Bihar, EC officials said over […]