In a recent submission to the Supreme Court, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has strongly asserted that it holds exclusive power to decide when and how to conduct the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, rejecting any attempt to mandate fixed intervals for such exercises. The matter arises from a Public Interest Litigation...
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi intensified his attack on the BJP and the Election Commission during his two-day visit to Rae Bareli, alleging massive electoral fraud in recent elections. Addressing reporters after a Disha committee meeting, Gandhi claimed that his party would soon release “black and white” evidence of what he called widespread vote theft. “When...
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Thursday chaired the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) meeting in Raebareli during his two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency. The quarterly meeting, held at the collectorate auditorium, was attended by several public representatives including Amethi MP K. L. Sharma and Minister of State Dinesh Pratap Singh. However, the...
Lucknow: High tension gripped the state capital on Tuesday as Samajwadi Party (SP) workers clashed with police during a protest march from GPO to Vidhan Bhavan. The demonstrators, shouting slogans of “Vote chor gaddi chhod” (Vote thieves, step down), were protesting against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which they alleged is being...
A criminal complaint has been lodged in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court against former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, accusing her of using forged documents to obtain voter status before acquiring Indian citizenship. The complaint, filed by advocate Vikas Tripathi, raises questions about how Gandhi’s name appeared in the New Delhi parliamentary constituency’s voter list in 1981–82,...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched a sharp attack on the BJP-led central government on Thursday, alleging a conspiracy to strip citizens of their voting rights. Speaking at the foundation day celebration of Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) on Mayo Road in Kolkata, she claimed that the Centre is planning to implement the National Register...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M.K. Stalin joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, on Wednesday, sparking a political storm. Stalin, accompanied by his sister and DMK MP Kanimozhi, shared the stage with Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, and CPI (ML) general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya....
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has granted a major relief to psephologist and Co-Director of the Centre for the Lokniti Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Sanjay Kumar, by staying FIR proceedings registered against him by Maharashtra police. The FIRs were filed following a now-deleted post by Kumar on X, which contained an erroneous analysis of...
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Bihar’s Leader of Opposition, Tejashwi Yadav, has launched a sharp attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI), claiming it is functioning like a “cell” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Speaking during the ongoing ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar’s Araria on Sunday, Tejashwi asserted that the commission has...
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has appointed two senior officers as Observers to oversee the upcoming Vice Presidential election, scheduled for September 9. The poll will see a direct contest between Justice (Retd.) B Sudershan Reddy, supported by the Opposition’s INDIA bloc, and the NDA candidate, C P Radhakrishnan. The last date for filing...