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Two nominations rejected, one Form 26 fight: Hardeep Puri is set to enter the Rajya Sabha unopposed
The returning officer in Madhya Pradesh rejected the papers of Kante Sayanna and Congress-backed Rajkumar Lohani at scrutiny on Tuesday, leaving Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri as the only candidate in the Rajya Sabha bypoll. Congress objected to Puri's Form 26 affidavit and said it will move court. The result is due on November 5.
Rs 2 crore for Rs 17 crore: Kerala hands a 2006 bribe charge against the CEC to Vigilance
Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala has asked the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau to examine a fresh complaint against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, who was Kerala's PWD secretary in 2006. A former Kollam contractor alleges a Rs 2 crore demand to release Rs 17 crore in approved bills, and links it to a Malaysian engineer's suicide. The claims are unproven and Kumar has not responded.
Voter list deadline moves to Nov 25 in Delhi, Nov 13 in Maharashtra after a nudge from the Supreme Court
A day after the Supreme Court asked the Election Commission to consider giving more time, the EC extended the claims-and-objections window in six states and reopened it in five. Final rolls are now due November 30 in five states and December 22 in Delhi.
64.5 lakh voters missing from Karnataka's rolls — and most of them are young
Around 64.5 lakh electors are potentially missing from Karnataka's final electoral rolls released after the Special Intensive Revision, according to an estimate based on an elector-to-population ratio of 66.11. Most of those missing are young voters. The Cockroach Janta Party has backed the INDIA bloc's November 1 rally against the exercise.
Can laxity cost you the vote forever? Supreme Court asks Election Commission
Hearing pleas against Delhi's special intensive revision, the Supreme Court questioned why voters already on the 2026 rolls are being made to apply afresh through Form 6. It said it has not yet ruled on the legality of 'logical discrepancy' deletions. The Election Commission told the court it will look into the suggestions and extend the October 30 deadline.
SIR screened 10 crore voters and found 1,600 'foreigners'. Congress wants the CEC out
The Congress on Thursday called the Special Intensive Revision a conspiracy run by the PM and home minister, and demanded Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's removal. Jairam Ramesh said just 1,600 suspected foreign nationals were detected across six states after nearly 10 crore people were screened. The Election Commission has defended the exercise in a 248-page affidavit to the Supreme Court.
A thank-you note from Rahul Gandhi, and a November 1 date for the opposition rally
The Congress leader sarcastically thanked the BJP and its allies for promoting the INDIA bloc's November 1 rally against 'vote chori'. The Congress also accused the Election Commission of withholding information on the ECINET software.
61,059 deletion requests, not one with a reason: election officials filed Form-7 against voters
Electoral Registration Officers and Assistant EROs in Karnataka filed 61,059 Form-7 applications to strike names off the rolls, and none records why. Officials blame auto-generated forms. The final roll is due on October 27.
All 403 Uttar Pradesh seats now under voter-roll audit as EC orders Form 6, 7, 8 scrutiny
The Election Commission has put under mandatory scrutiny every name added, deleted or amended in Uttar Pradesh's electoral rolls through Forms 6, 7 and 8 fed by computer assistants, across all 403 assembly constituencies, after the Special Intensive Revision ended on April 10. The order follows anomalies in districts including Pilibhit and Azamgarh. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has alleged the EC refused an RTI query on the SIR software.
CEC removal bid will follow due process, Birla says as farm outfits press Murmu
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said any impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar will follow due process, as farm outfits wrote to President Droupadi Murmu demanding his resignation over the electoral roll revision.
Voting under way for 28 MLC seats in four states, with UP billed a semi-final before 2027
Polling opened at 8 am on Friday for 28 Legislative Council seats in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Karnataka, with graduates and teachers voting in their own constituencies. Ballots are on paper, and counting is set for October 27. The Election Commission says the process ends by October 31.
SSR is RSS in reverse, says Akhilesh Yadav, accusing BJP of rigging voter rolls
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav accused the BJP of conspiring to manipulate electoral rolls through the Election Commission, calling the ongoing special summary revision an 'RSS' in reverse.
Supreme Court lets citizens file false-affidavit complaints without EC nod
The Supreme Court ruled that any private citizen can file a criminal complaint against an elected representative for an allegedly false poll affidavit, without the Election Commission's sanction. It declined, however, to revive proceedings in the case before it.
Nagpur graduates seat: Mungantiwar campaigns for BJP-Mahayuti's Sudhakar Kohale
Campaigning in Chandrapur, MLA Sudhir Mungantiwar asked graduate voters to back BJP-Mahayuti's Sudhakar Kohale on merit, not caste, in the 23 October poll.
182 candidates, 5 seats: Maharashtra MLC polls this Friday
Five Maharashtra Legislative Council seats go to polls on Friday, 23 October. 10.68 lakh graduates and teachers will vote at 2,419 booths; counting is on 27 October.
Voter Registration Drive: Polling Booth Camps on October 17, 18, 24 and 25
Maharashtra has launched a special drive to add voters and correct the draft voter list. Camps will be held at polling stations on October 17, 18, 24 and 25, and citizens can file applications until October 26.
BREAKINGCJP's 'Vote Chori' campaign is a political plot to defame India, says Raj Saraf
BJP youth lawyer Raj Saraf says the Cockroach Janta Party's voter-list protests have turned into an attack on the Election Commission and on Indian democracy. He rejects the claim that 13 crore voters are missing.