After party worker protests, BJP candidates from Vadodara, Sabarkantha opt out of electoral race

After party worker protests, BJP candidates from Vadodara, Sabarkantha opt out of electoral race

After protests from local party workers, two BJP candidates — Vadodara MP Ranjanben Bhatt and Sabarkantha’s debutant candidate Bhikhaji Thakor — have opted out from the electoral race, citing “personal reasons”. Their names were cleared by the BJP in the first list of candidates. On Saturday, they both announced on social media that they were … Read more

Clarity likely soon on lesser known entities, individuals who bought electoral bonds

Clarity likely soon on lesser known entities, individuals who bought electoral bonds

Data related to electoral bonds made public last week by the Election Commission of India (ECI) has turned the spotlight on not just some of the well known companies in the Telugu-speaking States but also many lesser known entities and individuals. While these presumably low profile firms and individuals may not be as popular as … Read more

In NE, only Sikkim parties received funds through electoral bonds

In NE, only Sikkim parties received funds through electoral bonds

EC data shows that the Sikkim Democratic Front and Sikkim Krantikari Morcha received funds through the electoral bonds scheme. File | Photo Credit: Reuters GUWAHATI Only two parties from the North-East – both from Sikkim – received funds through the electoral bonds scheme introduced in 2018, two data sets five years apart uploaded by the … Read more

Electoral bonds data proves BJP is most corrupt: RJD

Electoral bonds data proves BJP is most corrupt: RJD

RJD’s Manoj Jha | Photo Credit: PTI Senior RJD leader Manoj Jha on March 15 alleged that the data on electoral bonds proves that the BJP Government at the Centre is “the most corrupt political party in the history” of the country. Mr. Jha, the party’s national spokesperson, also claimed that the data, which is … Read more

Himachal crisis: police register case against independent MLA, Congress rebel’s father for ‘electoral offences’

Himachal crisis: police register case against independent MLA, Congress rebel’s father for ‘electoral offences’

The Himachal Pradesh Police on Sunday registered a case against an independent MLA and the father of a Congress rebel and others over “electoral offences” related to the recent Rajya Sabha polls in which six party MLAs voted for the BJP candidate from the State. The case against Hamirpur’s independent MLA Ashish Sharma and Gagret’s … Read more

Cong. leader B.R. Patil stresses radical electoral reforms, favours entire election process in eight days

Cong. leader B.R. Patil stresses radical electoral reforms, favours entire election process in eight days

B.R. Patil, Adviser to the Chief Minister and Aland MLA, has stressed the need for radical electoral reforms. “The election process should be completed in eight days without giving candidates any opportunities to divide people on the lines of religion and caste,” he said in an interaction programme in Shivamogga on Saturday. The sale of liquor … Read more

Train cancellations emerge as electoral issue in poll-bound Chhattisgarh

Train cancellations emerge as electoral issue in poll-bound Chhattisgarh

Image of Chhattisgarh Congress workers protesting against train cancellations. | Photo Credit: File With over 60,000 trains cancellations in the last three years, the Congress has decided to take the matter up as an electoral issue Unlike most election cycles which see divisive social issues at the fore, railways, or specifically, repeated passenger train cancellations, … Read more

BJP’s first list of nominations seeks to win an uncle-nephew electoral battle in Chhattisgarh

BJP’s first list of nominations seeks to win an uncle-nephew electoral battle in Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel. | Photo Credit: PTI In Chhattisgarh, the highlight of the BJP’s first list of nominations for the forthcoming State Assembly elections is its attempt to corner Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel by fielding sitting Durg MP and former Congress leader Vijay Baghel from Patan in Durg, which the … Read more

Probe into Chilume finds no manipulation of electoral data, but says illegally collected voter data was stored in foreign server

Probe into Chilume finds no manipulation of electoral data, but says illegally collected voter data was stored in foreign server

As directed by the ECI, a comprehensive verification of the purity of the Electoral Rolls was taken up in Mahadevapura, Shivajinagar and Chikpete. No electoral fraud or manipulation of electoral roll is detected in the three constituencies. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN The investigation into the alleged voter data theft by Chilume Educational Cultural and Rural … Read more

Despite attacks by Akhilesh, Congress in Uttar Pradesh hopeful of Opposition realignment due to electoral realities

Despite attacks by Akhilesh, Congress in Uttar Pradesh hopeful of Opposition realignment due to electoral realities

File photo of Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav | Photo Credit: ANI Amid continuous attacks by the Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on the Congress, Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders are hopeful that a kind of alliance or tactical understanding with like-minded Opposition parties including the SP may happen in the run-up to the … Read more