Page 19 - Latest Updates on Election Commission of India
EC to go for full webcasting of polling stations for surveillance
Bihar assembly elections are due later this year and it will be the first state where 100 per cent webcasting will be implemented
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Write to EC formally: Poll panel to Rahul seeking reply on rigging claim
Gandhi had on Saturday hit back at the Election Commission after sources in the poll panel rejected allegation of rigging in the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly polls
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Rahul upset over electoral losses: Maharashtra BJP chief on rigging claims
Election Commission described Rahul Gandhi's allegations relating to Maharashtra polls as an "affront to the rule of law"
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EC rejects Rahul Gandhi's charge of rigging in Maharashtra elections
Underscoring that match-fixed elections are a poison for any democracy, Gandhi wrote that the side that cheats may win the game, but it damages institutions and destroys public faith
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EC launches new system for faster, accurate voter turnout reporting
The Election Commission of India has introduced ECINET, a digital app that enables real-time voter turnout reporting, ensuring quick updates at the constituency level on polling days across India
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First time in 2 decades, EC holds revision of voters' list for bypolls
The last time a special summary revision took place for a bypoll was in 2006 in Tamil Nadu
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Centre moves 41 officers in major joint secretary-level reshuffle
Senior IAS officers Anbalagan P and Sanjay Kumar Agarwal have been appointed as joint secretaries in the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare
ECI releases schedule for bye-polls in Gujarat, Kerala, Punjab, West Bengal
ECI announces bypoll schedule in Gujarat, Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal; mobile deposit rules and 100-meter canvassing restrictions to ensure smooth polling
EC investigates Bengal BJP chief's wife for holding two voter IDs
Initial probe found that the minister's wife, Koel Majumdar, holds two voter ID cards with different EPIC numbers, one registered in Balurghat and another in Jalpaiguri.
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Court grants bail to Derek O'Brien, TMC leaders in 2024 ECI protest case
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Neha Mittal also granted relief to TMC leaders Santanu Sen, Dola Sen, Nadimul Haque, Vivek Gupta, Arpita Ghosh, Abir Ranjan Biswas and Sudip Raha
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EC interacts with BSP chief Mayawati for better understanding of issues
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar along with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi spoke with the BSP leadership at the Nirvachan Sadan
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EC building unified digital platform to integrate 40 mobile, web apps
The new platform will reduce the burden of users from downloading and navigating multiple Apps and remembering different logins
Aadhaar sharing for voters to remain voluntary; no legal changes planned
Amid a debate on the purity of electoral rolls, the Election Commission had said last month that the regular updating process of the voter list will be
Mehbooba backs Rahul Gandhi on EC, flags attack on democratic institutions
Mufti also welcomed the registration of an FIR against Army personnel accused of assaulting a professor in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir
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Some use religion to 'push hateful politics': SY Quraishi slams BJP's Dubey
Former CEC SY Quraishi's comments came in response to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey's remarks, in which he called Quraishi a 'Muslim commissioner' for criticising the controversial Waqf Act
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'Election Commission in India compromised': LoP Rahul Gandhi in Boston
Rahul Gandhi is currently on a US tour where he addressed the Indian diaspora in Boston. He will also address a gathering at Brown University on Monday
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SC to hear pleas on CEC, ECs' appointment under 2023 law on May 14
A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and Ujjal Bhuyan fixed the date after advocate Prashant Bhushan urged the bench to accord urgent hearing in the matter
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How EC was formed after Ambedkar's amendment in Constituent Assembly
Before Ambedkar brought the amendment, draft Article 289 proposed separate election commissions for the Centre and the states, scholarly articles and Constituent Assembly debates suggest
EVMs in country absolutely safe, not being tampered with: CEC Gyanesh Kumar
CEC stated that wherever democracy was present, electoral rolls and election processes were different, and in some countries, electronic voting systems were used
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EC holds nearly 5K meets with political representatives at various levels
The process involved engagements with over 28,000 representatives of political parties nationwide, the Election Commission (EC) said on Tuesday