SC seeks Centre, ECI’s response to lifetime ban for convicted MPs/MLAs from contesting polls
Besides the Central government, the court asked ECI to submit its reply on the plea by a PIL petitioner advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.
Besides the Central government, the court asked ECI to submit its reply on the plea by a PIL petitioner advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.
The poll panel submitted a list of newly-elected candidates to Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena.
Among the assembly constituencies, Mustafabad registered the highest turnout at 12.43%, while Chandni Chowk recorded the lowest at 4.53% in the first two hours.
The ECI has also called upon citizens, parties, and candidates to report any instances of election related violations using its “cVigil” app.
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).
The petitioners have sought to restrain the Central government from going ahead with the appointment of two Election Commissioners.
Since the inception of the scheme in 2018, the SBI has issued Electoral Bonds worth Rs 16,518 crore in 30 tranches.
Kharge raised concerns over the alleged systematic decimation of constitutional bodies.
A 15-member full bench of the ECI headed by its Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar had come on a three-day-long visit to West Bengal and held series of meetings separately with state chief electoral officer (CEO) Ariz Aftab, representatives of eight recognized political parties, commissioners of police, chief secretary, home secretary, director general of police (DGP) and several agencies like Coast Guard and BSF to review preparedness of election process in the state.
The poll panel issued the advisory while taking note of the various trends and cases of plummeting levels of political campaign discourse in recently held elections.
