EC removes Bankura District Magistrate after poll violence in West Bengal during 6th phase of Lok Sabha election
5 years, 7 months ago

EC removes Bankura District Magistrate after poll violence in West Bengal during 6th phase of Lok Sabha election

Firstpost  

In the aftermath of violence marred polls in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India on Sunday removed Uma Shankar from the post of Bankura District Magistrate. New Delhi: In the aftermath of violence marred polls in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India on Sunday removed Uma Shankar from the post of Bankura District Magistrate. “The Commission had directed that Ms Mukta Arya, IAS to be posted as DM-cum-District Election Officer with immediate effect,” an order from the EC to the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal on Sunday said. A Bharatiya Janata Party worker was severely injured in a clash with Trinamool Congress workers outside polling booth number one in Bankura on Sunday.

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Uttar Pradesh records 56% polling as voting ends on 13 Lok Sabha seats
7 months, 1 week ago

Uttar Pradesh records 56% polling as voting ends on 13 Lok Sabha seats

The Hindu  

A voter turnout of approximately 55.6% was recorded till 5 p.m. on Saturday in the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh. In the 13 seats in the Purvanchal region that went to the polls in the final phase, which includes the prestigious seat of Varanasi from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is contesting, the …

EC summons Andhra Pradesh chief secretary, DGP over post-poll violence
7 months, 3 weeks ago

EC summons Andhra Pradesh chief secretary, DGP over post-poll violence

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India has summoned the chief secretary and the director general of police of Andhra Pradesh to New Delhi on May 16 over post-poll violence that occurred in the state, a senior election commission official said on Wednesday. The poll body has also directed chief secretary K S Jawahar Reddy and police chief Harish Kumar …

Andhra Pradesh poll violence: ECI summons Chief Secy & DGP
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Andhra Pradesh poll violence: ECI summons Chief Secy & DGP

New Indian Express  

VIJAYAWADA: Taking cognizance of the violence that erupted across Andhra Pradesh on the day of polling on Monday as well as after the elections on Tuesday, the Election Commission of India on Wednesday expressed its displeasure over the law and order situation in the State. The poll panel summoned Chief Secretary KS Jawahar Reddy and DGP Harish Kumar Gupta to …

TMC demands Supreme Court-monitored election after EC orders removal of West Bengal DGP
9 months, 3 weeks ago

TMC demands Supreme Court-monitored election after EC orders removal of West Bengal DGP

India TV News  

Lok Sabha election 2024: A day after the Election Commission of India directed the removal of West Bengal DGP, the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday demanded that the upcoming Lok Sabha elections should be a Supreme Court-monitored election. 'Want Supreme Court-monitored Election' "BJP's filthy tricks destroying institutions like Election Commission of India. EC removes Bengal DGP The Election Commission of India …

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: ECI appoints Sanjay Mukherjee as new DGP of West Bengal
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: ECI appoints Sanjay Mukherjee as new DGP of West Bengal

India TV News  

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Election Commission of India on Tuesday appointed Sanjay Mukherjee as the new Director General of Police of West Bengal after it issued orders to remove Rajeev Kumar from the post. However, since he is set to retire in the final week of May before the Lok Sabha elections conclude, the poll panel decided to appoint …

Lok Sabha polls | West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar shunted out, Vivek Sahay is new DGP
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Lok Sabha polls | West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar shunted out, Vivek Sahay is new DGP

The Hindu  

The Election Commission of India on Monday transferred West Bengal Director-General of Police Rajeev Kumar. In February 2019, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat on dharna when a team of Central Bureau of investigation knocked at Mr. Kumar’s residence to question him in connection with the chit fund scam. The West Bengal BJP leadership welcomed Mr. Kumar’s transfer. “We have no …

Central agencies must not impede electoral process: TMC tells Election Commission
10 months ago

Central agencies must not impede electoral process: TMC tells Election Commission

The Hindu  

The Trinamool Congress on March 4 urged the Election Commission to ensure that central agencies must not impede the electoral process. The TMC delegation also appealed to the commission to make sure that "central forces are not pressurised by the BJP". Terming BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari as a "habitual offender", the TMC asked EC members to "keep a close watch" …

Ex-judge bars biggies from HCA elections
1 year, 5 months ago

Ex-judge bars biggies from HCA elections

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In an effort to cleanse the Hyderabad Cricket Association, whose reputation is at a historic low, and free it, at least on paper, from the clutches of a few individuals, former Supreme Court judge Justice L. Nageswara Rao has debarred representatives of about 80 cricket clubs from contesting the HCA executive committee elections for a term. Though the office …

BJP asks poll body to remove Bengal police chief over pre-poll violence remarks
1 year, 6 months ago

BJP asks poll body to remove Bengal police chief over pre-poll violence remarks

India Today  

Ahead of the July 8 West Bengal panchayat polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shishir Bajoria wrote to the State Election Commission on Thursday, asking for the removal of the state police chief for his statements on the deaths in the Bengal pre-poll violence. Just because two or three incidents of extreme violence have occurred, it does not mean that …

Post-poll violence: Arrest warrant against Mamata Banerjee’s election agent
2 years ago

Post-poll violence: Arrest warrant against Mamata Banerjee’s election agent

Hindustan Times  

A court in West Bengal’s East Midnapore has issued arrest warrants against four people including Sheikh Sufiyan, a ruling Trinamool Congress leader and chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s election agent in the Nandigram assembly constituency in 2021, in connection with an alleged post-poll murder. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee lost the Nandigram seat in the 2021 polls. The Central Bureau …

EC asks Jharkhand to remove Deoghar DC on BJP MP’s complaint
3 years, 1 month ago

EC asks Jharkhand to remove Deoghar DC on BJP MP’s complaint

Hindustan Times  

The Jharkhand government must remove Deoghar deputy commissioner Manjunath Bhajantri from his current posting with immediate effect, and initiate disciplinary proceedings against him, the Election Commission of India directed on Tuesday. The federal poll body has directed the state government not to post the Indian Administrative Service officer as deputy commissioner or any other election duty without its permission. The …

West Bengal Elections How Is Mamata Banerjee CM Despite Losing Seat Bhabanipur Bypolls Election Commission
3 years, 4 months ago

West Bengal Elections How Is Mamata Banerjee CM Despite Losing Seat Bhabanipur Bypolls Election Commission

ABP News  

Kolkata: Election Commission of India on Saturday announced that the Bypoll to the Bhabanipur assembly seat in West Bengal, from where Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee plans to contest, would be held on September 30. The announcement came as a massive relief for TMC as it will give Banerjee a chance to become a member of West …

President's rule in Bengal? SC seeks response from Centre, Mamata govt and EC
3 years, 6 months ago

President's rule in Bengal? SC seeks response from Centre, Mamata govt and EC

India TV News  

President's Rule in Bengal News: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea seeking direction to the Centre to impose President's Rule in West Bengal in view of deteriorating law and order situation due to the post-poll violence which started on May 2, the day of assembly election results. Advocate Hari Shankar Jain -- appearing for petitioners Ranjana …

Bengal Election Phase 8 Voting Highlights: 76.07% voter turnout recorded till 5.30 pm in last phase
3 years, 8 months ago

Bengal Election Phase 8 Voting Highlights: 76.07% voter turnout recorded till 5.30 pm in last phase

India Today  

Bengal Election Phase 8 Voting Live Updates: Stray incidents of violence were reported on Thursday from several areas where voting is underway for the eighth and last phase of assembly elections in Bengal, but the overall polling process has been peaceful with 37.8 per cent turnout till 11 am, EC officials said. - Earlier in the day, one person was …

West Bengal Assembly polls 2021: EC removes police officer in Mamata Banerjee's security team over Nandigram incident
3 years, 9 months ago

West Bengal Assembly polls 2021: EC removes police officer in Mamata Banerjee's security team over Nandigram incident

Firstpost  

The step against Asoke Chakraborty, an officer on special duty in the rank of SP, is believed to have been taken because of ‘security lapses’ which led to Banerjee’s foot injury in Nandigram in Feb Kolkata: The Election Commission of India on Friday removed an SP rank officer posted in the security of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, an …

Bengal polls 2021: EVM, VVPATs found at TMC leader’s residence in Uluberia Uttar, 3 ECI officials suspended
3 years, 9 months ago

Bengal polls 2021: EVM, VVPATs found at TMC leader’s residence in Uluberia Uttar, 3 ECI officials suspended

India TV News  

An Electronic Voting Machine and four VVPATs were found at a Trinamool Congress leader's residence in Uluberia Uttar of Howrah district in West Bengal where polling is underway in the third phase, covering 31 seats. According to the Bharatiya Janata Party workers, the machine was found at TMC leader Gautam Ghosh's residence in Tulsiberia. He told India TV, "Assistant sector …

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | EC rejects Mamata’s complaint of rigging at Nandigram booth
3 years, 9 months ago

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | EC rejects Mamata’s complaint of rigging at Nandigram booth

The Hindu  

The Election Commission on Sunday warned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that her conduct at a polling booth in Nandigram was under its scanner and rejected her allegations of rigging and violence on April 1, the day of voting for the second phase of State Assembly elections. While the Chief Minister sat inside a polling booth at Boyal Primary …

EC removes Bengal ADG Jawed Shamim a day after poll date announcement
3 years, 10 months ago

EC removes Bengal ADG Jawed Shamim a day after poll date announcement

India Today  

In a major reshuffle of the top brass of the police, the Election Commission on Saturday removed Additional Director General of Police Jawed Shamim and brought in Jag Mohan in his place. Besides being the Director General Fire Services, Shamim will also hold the charge of DG Civil Defence till further notice, the chief electoral officer of the state said …

EC Removes Senior West Bengal Police Officer Day After Announcing Poll Dates
3 years, 10 months ago

EC Removes Senior West Bengal Police Officer Day After Announcing Poll Dates

News 18  

A day after announcing the dates for assembly polls in West Bengal, the Election Commission on Saturday removed Additional Director General of Police Jawed Shamim and brought in Jag Mohan in his place, an official order said. Shamim, a 1995-batch IPS officer, will replace Mohan as the DG Fire Services in the rank of ADG, the chief electoral officer of …

Bengal BJP Writes to State EC to Conduct Pending Civic Polls at The Earliest
4 years, 3 months ago

Bengal BJP Writes to State EC to Conduct Pending Civic Polls at The Earliest

News 18  

The West Bengal BJP on Thursday demanded immediate intervention of the state Election Commission in conducting polls in more than 107 municipalities and corporations. Sensing that the state government is intentionally delaying the poll process, the Bengal BJP has written to the state election commission and demanded immediate intervention in the matter, reminding it about the Supreme Court’s order dated …

West Bengal: EC orders re-polling at Kolkata Uttar constituency booth on 22 May; Rahul Sinha, Sudip Bandyopadhyay in fray
5 years, 7 months ago

West Bengal: EC orders re-polling at Kolkata Uttar constituency booth on 22 May; Rahul Sinha, Sudip Bandyopadhyay in fray

Firstpost  

The Election Commission of India on Tuesday ordered re-polling at a booth in Kolkata’s Uttar parliamentary constituency. ECI declared void the poll held on 19 May at polling station number 200 of the Kolkata’s Uttar parliamentary constituency. New Delhi: The Election Commission of India on Tuesday ordered re-polling at a booth in Kolkata’s Uttar parliamentary constituency. BJP’s Rahul Sinha, TMC’s …

Opposition parties approach EC for additional campaign time in West Bengal: 10 things to know
5 years, 7 months ago

Opposition parties approach EC for additional campaign time in West Bengal: 10 things to know

India Today  

Three opposition parties, including the Congress, on Thursday approached the Election Commission over its order curtailing the time period for campaigning in West Bengal, terming it "violative" of the doctrine of level-playing field and urged the poll body to give at least half a day more for electioneering. In a first in the country, campaigning for nine Lok Sabha seats …

EC clamps down on Bengal poll campaign, leaves Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee sparring | What happens now?
5 years, 7 months ago

EC clamps down on Bengal poll campaign, leaves Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee sparring | What happens now?

India Today  

The ongoing tussle between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal finally culminated in the Election Commission invoking Article 324 of the Constitution to curtail campaigning for the last phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal. Ban gift to Modi-Shah: Mamata Attacking the Election Commission for curtailing the campaigning for the last phase …

Congress slams EC decision on poll campaigning in Bengal
5 years, 7 months ago

Congress slams EC decision on poll campaigning in Bengal

India TV News  

After the Election Commission curtailed campaign timing for the remaining nine Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal by a day due to violence, Congress on Wednesday slammed the poll panel's decision, terming it an "unpardonable betrayal of the Constitution". EC's order on West Bengal negates the due process under Art 14 & 21 and abdicates its Constitutional duty under Art …

West Bengal's Bankura locked in three-cornered fight
5 years, 8 months ago

West Bengal's Bankura locked in three-cornered fight

India Today  

The formidable organisational prowess of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress is up against a surging BJP and the last remnants of the Left in the land of red soil Bankura, once a fortress of the CPI. Though BJP candidate Subhas Sarkar expressed confidence on wresting the seat from TMC this time after losing in 2014, Mukherjee refused to accept that …

EC directs West Bengal Police to file FIR against Babul Supriyo for trespassing into polling booth, threatening agent, officer
5 years, 8 months ago

EC directs West Bengal Police to file FIR against Babul Supriyo for trespassing into polling booth, threatening agent, officer

Firstpost  

The Election Commission of India has directed the state police to register an FIR against Babul Supriyo, Union Minister and BJP candidate from Asansol Lok Sabha seat, for allegedly trespassing into polling booth number 199 and threatening a polling agent and an officer Kolkata: The Election Commission of India has directed the state police to register an FIR against Babul …

West Bengal LS elections 2019: EC orders FIR against Babul Supriyo for threatening presiding officer in Asansol
5 years, 8 months ago

West Bengal LS elections 2019: EC orders FIR against Babul Supriyo for threatening presiding officer in Asansol

ABP News  

Kolkata: The Election Commission on Monday directed the police to file an FIR against Babul Supriyo, BJP candidate Babul Supriyo for allegedly threatening presiding officer in Baraboni, Asansol at a polling booth earlier during the day. The order comes after the Union Minister's car was vandalised this morning in Asansol, amid voting for eight West Bengal constituencies in the fourth …

Lok Sabha election Phase 4: BJP, Trinamool move EC over poll violence in Bengal
5 years, 8 months ago

Lok Sabha election Phase 4: BJP, Trinamool move EC over poll violence in Bengal

India Today  

As violence marred the Phase 4 Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal's Asansol on Monday, a BJP delegation met Election Commission officials to demand deputation of adequate central forces to ensure free and fair elections in the state. A BJP delegation of Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Vijay Goel and Anil Baluni met the Election Commission on Monday afternoon to complain about …

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