Heavy security as counting of votes polled for elections to Assemblies of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry and bye-elections in seven Assembly constituencies of five States to be taken up
Trends and final results can be accessed on results.eci.gov.in.
Officials said that while police observers are generally not deployed during vote counting, in this case, they will not be allowed to enter the counting centres, and will manage law and order outside only
Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan say, the recommendation made way back in 2004 is yet to translate into a law
In Kavitha’s party’s case, the proposed name “Telangana Rashtra Sena” shares the first two words with the original TRS and carries the identical abbreviation, which the ECI may object to
There is panic in the BJP camp: TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee
In 2013, the Supreme Court directed the Election Commission of India to include NOTA as an option on electronic voting machines, allowing voters to formally reject all candidates
The Bombay High Court’s Goa bench quashed the ECI’s notification for bypoll in Ponda, citing violation of the Representation of the People Act, as the legislature’s term is set to expire in less than a year
How many names have been deleted from the electoral rolls, and why? What are the logical discrepancies identified by the ECI? Why were large numbers of voters placed under adjudication, and how was this resolved? How has the SIR process reshaped the State’s political contest?