Islamabad: In a major relief for Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Election Commission on Tuesday decided not to disqualify him as a legislator; weeks after the Supreme Court had said that he may lose membership of the Senate for making a false declaration about his citizenship. Secretary Election Commission Afzal Khan said that no further proceedings will be conducted against Malik, Dawn News reported. Khan said the decision was taken...
10:58 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Vadodara: In a bid to check circulation of "paid news" during the forthcoming Assembly elections in Gujarat, the Election Commission of India has issued some guidelines with illustrations to handle such cases. Vadodara district election officer Vinod Rao has constituted a media certification and monitoring committee (MCMC) that will monitor all political advertisements to be aired on TV channels and cable network, during the electoral process and also keep tab...
05:35 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: Launched under supervision of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and carrying Chief Minister Narendra Modi's initials, the new 'NaMo Gujarat' television channel on Friday got the Election Commission's nod but with some riders in the election-bound state where model code of conduct is in force. The new TV channel was launched a day after the announcement of the assembly election schedule in the state, only to be shut...
11:53 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Shimla: The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday stopped the BJP government in Himachal Pradesh from distributing free PDS bags carrying photographs of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. "Henceforth, no bags will be issued to the consumers of public distribution system (PDS) with a picture of any political leader, of whatever stature he/she is," Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath told reporters in Shimla. Sampath was in Shimla with other EC...
09:36 AM, Oct 08, 2012
The Election Commission declared dates for Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections amidst a bitter war of words between Narendra Modi and Sonia Gandhi. Kingfisher crisis deepens after talks between the management and striking employees fail over unpaid salaries.. the DGCA report says safety is a serious concern. ...
11:12 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly election dates will be announced by the Election Commission at 4 PM on Wednesday. Campaigning has already started in the two states with Gujarat seeing a lot of action as both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party as well as the Congress are leaving no stones unturned to mobilise their supporters. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is already touring the state while Congress President...
02:10 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's Election Commission on Monday announced it would take legal action against 12 lawmakers, including Interior Minister Rehman Malik, with dual nationality for submitting false declarations about their citizenship during the 2008 polls. Election Commission Secretary Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan told a news conference that the action was being taken in line with an order issued by the Supreme Court last week. The apex court had disqualified 11 federal and...
10:01 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Assembly elections in Gujarat are likely to be held in two phases by the second half of November and early December for which an announcement will be made by the Election Commission within a fortnight. The Assembly elections in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh is likely to be held in a single-phase this time by early December, Commission sources said. "The Commission may continue with the tradition...
03:20 AM, Sep 21, 2012
Islamabad: The Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday disqualified 11 parliamentarians, including Interior Minister Rahman Malik, for holding dual nationality. As reported by the Pakistani daily 'The Express Tribune', the other members who have been disqualified are - Farha Naz Ispahani, Zahid Iqbal, Jamil Malik, Farhat Mehmood Khan, Nadia Gabol, Amna Buttar, Ahmed Ali Shah, Wasim Qadir, Nadeem Khadim and Muhammad Ikhlaq. Rehman Malik was declared ineligible for misrepresentation of facts...
01:02 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Bellary: Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) winner from the Bellary Lok Sabha constituency, J Shantha, was on Saturday officially declared the winner from the seat after a recount of votes. The Karnataka High Court had set aside the election of the MP in June this year after a petition was filed against her in the court saying that she used fake caste certificates and that there were counting irregularities. Shantha is...
05:40 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Hyderabad: Secondary education minister K Parthasarathy has landed in further trouble, with the Election Commission (EC) on Monday directing the returning officer of Krishna district to take action against him for filing an incomplete affidavit in the 2009 elections and concealing the FERA violation case in which he was subsequently convicted. Sources said that the EC has directed the Krishna district collector and returning officer M Jyothy Buddha Prakash to...
12:58 PM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: The CPMs income has registered a nearly two-fold increase in the last five years, according to its income statement submitted before the I-T department and Election Commission. It was Rs 39,87,79,776 in 2005, but rose to Rs 76,57,00,502 in 2011. As per the income statement, the total income of the party for the period 2007-2011 is Rs 417,26,36,817. The party was forced to issue the statement after a...
08:33 AM, Aug 13, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission has cancelled Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's vote in the Presidential poll that took place on Thursday. Mulayam Singh Yadav had marked his vote for Bharatiya Janata Party's President nominee PA Sangma 'by mistake', so he asked for a second ballot paper and was given the same. PA Sangma's camp had Mulayam Singh Yadav with tearing his ballot paper after mistakenly voting in favour...
03:02 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: Political parties cannot issue any direction or whip to members to vote or not in Presidential poll as it would be an offence and MPs and MLAs will not risk disqualification under Anti-Defection law in the process, Election Commission said on Thursday. Setting at rest doubts on the issue, the poll panel observed that the "political parties cannot issue any direction or whip to their members to vote...
09:51 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday filed a petition before the Election Commission asking it to probe the alleged signature forgery case involving Presidential hopeful Pranab Mukherjee. The BJP said that Pranab's signature on the resignation letter to the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) needed to be investigated. Showing Pranab's signature on a print out of the resignation letter to Birbhum Institute of Engineering and Technology, Janata Party leader Subramaniyan Swamy,...
03:55 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Ahmedabad: The Election Commission arrived in Ahmedabad on Sunday as part of preparations ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections scheduled to be held later this year, official sources said. The Commission headed by Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath, election commissioner HS Brahma, deputy election commissioner Vinod Zutshi, and other officials, arrived in Ahmedabad on Sunday evening, they said. During their one-day visit beginning on Monday, the officials will meet representatives...
09:10 AM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday asked the Returning Officer for the Presidential poll to provide details of the scrutiny proceedings and the order on rejection of opposition candidate PA Sangma's objection to UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee's candidature. Returning Officer VK Agnihotri, who is the Secretary General of Rajya Sabha, had sought a clarification from the Commission on whether he could provide details of the scrutiny proceedings and his...
08:31 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: Election to the post of Vice President will be held on August 7 and the results would be out on the same day, the Election Commission announced on Tuesday. The term of the incumbent Md Hamid Ansari expires on August 10. Announcing the poll schedule, the Election Commission, after its meeting, decided that it would issue the notification on July 6, which will set the election process in...
07:49 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Lucknow: Polling for Lucknow Municipal Corporation in the three-tier urban local body elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held on Saturday. Besides the Lucknow Municipal Corporation, polling will also be held for eight nagar panchayats in the district, sources in the State Election Commission said. More than 22.47 lakh RPT lakh voters are expected to cast their ballotsfor the Lucknow Municipal Corporation and eight nagar panchayats on Saturday. Voters will...
01:41 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: The process for filing of nominations for the July 19 Presidential poll starts on Saturday with the issue of notification by the Election Commission. The filing of nominations will start at 11 AM on Saturday and will continue till June 30. After scrutiny on July 2, candidates can withdraw their nominations by July 4. The Presidential election is slated on July 19 through secret ballots which will be...
04:27 AM, Jun 16, 2012
