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.
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.
Alleging an inordinate delay in updating results of the Haryana Assembly elections on the Election Commission of India (ECI) website and application, Congress urged the poll panel to issue directions to its officials to update the website with "true and accurate" figures.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday said that the first phase of polling for Jammu and Kashmir assembly recorded 61.38 per cent voting on 18 September.
Mirwaiz said that with the assembly elections nearing, despite the ECI guidelines that preventive detention and asking people to report to police stations should be avoided
