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At 8 a.m. on October 25, 1951, the first votes in independent India’s first general election were cast in the remote tehsils of Chini and Pangi in Himachal Pradesh. It was the beginning of an unprecedented democratic exercise that would unfold over several months, until February 1952, as millions of Indians went to the polls for the first time
The alliance partners are using official machinery and police to prevent opposition candidates from filing nominations, allege CPI and CPI(M)
Deputy Secretary Barkha Tamrakar told the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee that India opposes turning “unverified allegations” into a negative characterisation, amid concerns raised by UN experts over Delhi’s youth-led protests
ABVP members participated in the rally from Lucknow University to Gandhi Chowk in Hazratganj, against what they call as attempts to weaken democracy and democratic institutions
The SIR is disenfranchising marginalised communities and advancing the Hindu nationalist project.
Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Mr. Singh asserted that democracy does not give anyone the licence to create disorder or undermine the credibility of constitutional institutions
They allege the exercise threatens democratic rights, and call for the agitation to be extended across Tamil Nadu
Opposition presents a united front amid heavy police deployment but little interruption; Congress says 2.5 lakh people took part in the four-hour-long ‘March for Democracy’; most protesters Congress supporters who travelled from across the country
Congress workers staged a protest rally in Hubballi on October 11, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of electoral malpractice and attempts to undermine democracy
The CJP protests sweeping through the country have exposed India’s hollowed-out democracy.
Those defending democracy are detained, while those betraying it are protected, says the DMK leader
Detentions, arrests, jails, lathis and pellets cannot deter the people of India, the Congress chief asserted
Inaugurating the protest, Youth Congress State vice-president Vishnu Sunil Pandalam alleged that instead of ensuring transparent elections, the Chief Election Commissioner was subverting democracy by arbitrarily cutting down votes
CJP says stir to continue till electoral system is ‘reformed’, urges youth to ‘book tickets to Delhi’; AISA’s Neha Bora says the protest is a fight by ‘we the people of India’ against the BJP to ‘save democracy’
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asserted that the CEC and everyone else involved in "criminal assault on democracy" will be held accountable
M.A. Baby alleges SIR has deprived 13 crore people of voting rights; calls for strengthening INDIA bloc to protect democracy
Telangana Pradesh Congress Seva Dal president Middela Jitender claims that SIR exercise undermined citizens’ voting rights and posed a serious threat to the democratic process