With the Opposition cornering the DMK government over the recent sexual assault of a girl student at the prestigious Anna University, Madras High Court on Thursday blamed political parties for holding protests only to garner media attention.
Political parties in Uttar Pradesh will now get one week's more time more for campaigning in the 9 assembly bye-elections after the Election Commission on Monday extended the date of polling to November 20 from the existing November 13.
BJP, Congress, NCP, and Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders have welcomed the Election Commission of India's (ECI) announcement of poll dates for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand Assembly elections, asserting that their parties are fully prepared for the coming polls.
Perhaps in no other general election in the past have issues like ‘uniform civil code’, ‘politics of appeasement’, ‘secularism’, ‘illegal infiltration’, ‘NRC’ etc. been so much a part of the campaign of political parties as it had happened this time.
Everyone is waiting with bated breath for the 2024 poll results, which will be released on June 4.
Currently, political parties are required to disclose all donations above Rs 20,000 through their contribution report that is submitted to the EC.
In the letter, CEC has recommended a slew of amendments to the Representation of the People (RP) Act.
A bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana, Justices Hima Kohli, and CT Ravikumar said looking at the "complexity" of the freebies issues,
Interestingly, post-poll alliances have numbered more in India than pre-poll alliances.
The next couple of years will also see more digitalisation which means human intervention that was the foundation of government services will slowly give way to automation with better platforms.
