Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led government at the Centre over the amendment made in the Conduct of Election Rules, saying this was a "systematic conspiracy" by the ruling dispensation to destroy the institutional integrity of the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Releasing its fourth and final list of 38 candidates on Sunday, the AAP has become the first party in the city to declare candidates for all 70 assembly seats in Delhi, even before the announcement of the assembly elections by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Elections to 70 Assembly seats in Delhi are scheduled to be held early next year.
They demanded the poll panel to look into their complaint on legal merits and priority basis to ensure a true and transparent election for the Delhi Assembly. The delegation submitted a detailed report of 5000 pages, as evidence of fake, duplicate and dead voters, also illegal immigrants, Rohingyas listed as voters.
The first issue raised by the Congress memorandum is about the arbitrary deletion of voters and subsequent addition of over 10,000 voters in each constituency in Maharashtra from the final voter lists.
After coming out of the ECI office, Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, “We are very grateful that they gave us time at a very short notice on two to three major issues."
A day after senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh alleged that Home Minister Amit Shah had called 150 District Magistrates ahead of counting of votes
Actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who has been roped in by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to encourage young voters to participate in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, will travel to his hometown Chandigarh to cast his vote on June 1.
A maximum of 12.39 per cent polling was registered in Patliputra Lok Sabha Constituency followed by adjoining Jahanabad where the ECI registered 12.21 per cent polling.
The polling is scheduled to begin at 7 am in 1.09 lakh polling stations amid tight security. These polling stations will be manned by around 10.9 lakh polling officials.
