ECI disqualifies five candidates of Punjab 2022 Assembly polls
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has disqualified five candidates, who contested the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has disqualified five candidates, who contested the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections.
Political parties in UP have been waiting for the past four months to go for another test of their electoral prowess after the Lok Sabha polls that witnessed a major debacle for the ruling BJP.
The counting of votes will take place alongside the Maharashtra and Jharkhand Assembly polls on 23rd November.
The petition contends that offering freebies in the run-up to elections unfairly sways voters and calls for such promises to be treated as bribes.
The Election Commission will announce the schedule for Assembly elections for Maharashtra and Jharkhand on Tuesday.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday cancelled the nomination of former IPS officer Debashis Dhar, nominated by BJP for Birbhum Lok Sabha constituency against the three-time incumbent Trinamul Congress MP Satabdi Roy.
Among the Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh that went to polls on Friday along with Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddha Nagar were Amroha, Meerut, Baghpat, Aligarh, Mathura and Bulandshahr seats.
According to the notification, 3rd May is the last date of filing nominations. Scrutiny of nominations will take place on 4th May and the last date of withdrawal of candidature is 6th May.
Former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti on Friday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) not to postpone the polls for the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency on the pleading of the BJP and its allies.
Over 15.88 crore voters will be determining the fate of 1202 candidates tomorrow in the second phase of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections.