Paralympic archery champions Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar on Wednesday teamed up to inspire voters nationwide as Election Commission of India’s national icons for persons with disabilities (PwDs).
Shopian district is divided into two Assembly constituencies -- Zainapora and Shopian -- with a total of 2,09,039 registered voters.
The candidates can withdraw their nominations until September 16 with voting on October 1. The vote count will be on October 4.
Except for a few stray incidents and allegations and counter allegations of booth jamming and false voting, the by-election in four Assembly constituencies passed off peacefully today.
The Commission and its officials across the states have been disseminating voter turnout data in the best possible manner, taking into account statutory considerations, it said.
The UP chief minister calls it a must for the uninterrupted and rapid development of the state and the prosperity of its people.
Politics in many countries is becoming a vaudeville, a soap opera. And we know, in Italian opera, everyone dies in the end. Democracy is already paying a price in the form of institutional inertia and institutional vandalism. The danger also comes from the emerging trend of what Italian writer Enzo Traverso calls ‘post-fascism‘. In loose terms, post-fascism refers to what fascism will look like in the 21st century
According to the Election Commission of India’s most recent enrolment statistics, out of the total of 4.9 crore registered voters, approximately 2.35 crore are under the age of 40. As many as 11.74 lakh of them are first-time voters, which is 2.39 per cent down from 2.7 per cent in 2017 and as much as 3.5 per cent in 2012.
Twenty-six-year-old Piyush Kanga is the youngest candidate from Bilaspur youngest candidate.
A recent report prepared by the Union Ministers after visiting 144 constituencies in which the BJP was defeated, despite being a chance to win, was put up before the party central leadership the other day.
