New Delhi: The high-profile election of the Indian Olympic Association will now be held on December 5, ten days after its earlier scheduled date of November 25 following the resignation of Election Commission Chairman S Y Quraishi. The elections had to be postponed in the wake of dramatic resignation of Quraishi, a former Chief Election Commissioner, citing IOA's backtracking from its earlier commitment to hold the polls under the Government's Sports Code.
The remaining two members of the Commission, Returning Officer Justice V K Bali (Retd) and Justice J D Kapoor (Retd) then postponed the scrutiny of the nomination till appointment of the new chairman of the Commission. IOA then re-constituted the three-member Election Commission and appointed Justice Anil Dev Singh, Retired Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court, as its Chairman.
After the meeting of the re-constituted Commission attended by all the members, Justice Bali announced the rescheduled date of the elections. According to the re-schedule of the elections released by Justice Bali, list of nomination received have been displayed at his office. The scrutiny of nominations will be held on November 24 while withdrawal of nominations will be from November 25 to 29. The elections will be held on December 5 from 1400 hrs onwards.
IOA Secretary General Randhir Singh is contesting the election against Abhay Singh Chautala for the president's post while tainted sports administrator Lalit Bhanot is contesting the post of Secretary General against Volleyball Federation of India Secretary General K Murugan and Judo
06:55 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath has taken over as the new Chief Election Commissioner, succeeding SY Quraishi. Sampath was appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner last week, and will preside over the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. VS Sampath is the 18th CEC of India. A low-profile bureaucrat, who has had stints in various capacities in Andhra Pradesh and Delhi, Sampath was Power Secretary at the Centre before he was appointed...
12:03 PM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath on Monday will take over as the 18th Chief Election Commissioner of India at the EC headquarters in the Capital. A 1973 batch IAS officer, 62-year-old Sampath will take over from SY Quraishi whose term came to an end on Sunday. Sampath, who was appointed as the CEC last week, will preside over the next Lok Sabha elections in 2014. A low-profile bureaucrat, who has...
01:19 AM, Jun 11, 2012
Hyderabad: Kadapa MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy's mother and the party honorary chief YS Vijaya on Monday requested Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi to direct CBI to release her son in larger interest of democracy and sought holding of free and fair elections in Andhra Pradesh. In a letter addressed to Quraishi, Vijaya alleged her son was arrested just days before the June 12 bypolls as part of a larger conspiracy...
12:37 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi on Friday said there is no scientific basis for exit and opinion polls and sought a ban on both saying these could be sponsored. Speaking at a panel discussion on "Is India's media becoming increasing unethical", he said the poll body wanted a ban on not only exit polls but also opinion polls. "We wanted a ban on opinion and exit polls. If...
01:07 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India is hosting a conference of heads of election management bodies of SAARC countries in New Delhi from April 30 to May 2 when they will focus on giving a final shape to their Forum. The setting up of such a forum of SAARC election management bodies was approved in principle at the conference held in Islamabad in 2011. The three-day conference will be...
08:52 PM, Apr 27, 2012
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi on Tuesday said he doesn't see online voting becoming a reality in near future while state funding of elections in the country will first require certain key reforms in the electoral process. "Voting online, technologically is child's play for us. We are an IT superpower. Let's accept that. But we do not see that happening in the near future," Quraishi said at a...
01:04 AM, Apr 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commision on Wednesday laid stress on strengthening election expenditure monitoring mechanism and asked polls officials to focus on training of its officials in this regard. On the concluding day of the two-day conference of chief electoral officials (CEOs), top EC officials asked the CEOs of states to tighten the election monitoring mechanism and train their officials for ensuring this. The top poll officials were asked to...
04:59 AM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Chief Election Commisssioner SY Quraishi has said that he would like to conduct the scrapped Jharkhand Rajya Sabha elections before the Presidential polls. The Jharkhand Rajya Sabha elections were cancelled by the election Commission. The Election Commission on Friday countermanded the Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand in the wake of allegations of horse trading and seizure of over Rs 2 crore in cash, saying the election process there...
03:40 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: In an uprecedented step, the Election Commission on Friday countermanded the Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand in the wake of allegations of horse trading and seizure of over Rs 2 crore in cash, saying the election process there "has been seriously vitiated". "The Commission is satisfied that the current election process for Rajya Sabha election from Jharkhand has been seriously vitiated and cannot be permitted to proceed," the...
12:47 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Mumbai: The Government auditor CAG on Wednesday sought more powers for the constitutional body and said the common man has all the right to know how his tax money is being spent. "The legislature votes the Budget. The Budget is passed on to the executive, which implements it and expends that money. Whether that money has been expended, where it was meant to be and since that money has been...
10:27 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Mumbai: Stressing that it is important to get rid of criminals in the electoral process, Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi on Tuesday said the law must bar such a candidate from contesting. "People ask me, why can't you debar a candidate from contesting. We cannot do that. The law must debar them," Quraishi said at a lecture organised by Moneylife Foundation and V Citizens Action Network (VCAN). "The law says...
09:32 PM, Mar 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Thursday made a strong pitch for financial autonomy on the lines granted to constitutional bodies like the Supreme Court and the CAG, saying the dependence on the government could lead to conflict of interest. "We want the budget of the Election Commission to be charged through the Consolidated Fund of India and not voted through Parliament," Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said while speaking...
05:31 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Barring criminals from contesting and checking use of black money in elections top his reform agenda, Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said on Friday. "Barring criminals from contesting and checking use of black money in elections are top reform proposals," said Quraishi while delivering a lecture here on poll reforms. He said the proposals are pending with the Centre for two decades and parliament has to decide on...
12:22 AM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said on Sunday that the Representation of the People Act should be fine-tuned to make penalties for violating the model code of conduct (MCC) more stringent but disfavoured giving statutory backing to the code. Speaking to reporters, Quraishi said the poll panel had the authority for conducting free and fair elections and did not require more powers. "But we need to fine-tune and...
01:23 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: Amid a flurry of exit polls predicting the outcome of Assembly elections ahead of the March 6 results, Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi on Sunday said such surveys should at best be on entertainment channels. "Opinion and exit polls should at best be on entertainment channels!," Quraishi tweeted this afternoon, taking a dig at the surveys. The reaction of the CEC, who made his Twitter debut on February...
06:43 PM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: India's Chief Election Commissioner, SY Quraishi has finally "surrendered" to the Twitter. And Quraishi says he has to thank the youth of the country and his son for it. Posting his maiden tweet, Quraishi, the head of the Election Commission, wrote, "At last, I have surrendered to twitter! Thanks to my son @mustafaquraishi and the youth of India for inspiring me." In opening a Twitter account, Quraishi has...
12:59 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Lucknow/ New Delhi: A political storm is brewing over Election Commission's decision to transfer a poll observer, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Pawan Sen, who stopped Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra's motorcycle rally near Amethi on Monday. While the Election Commission claims that the order to transfer Sen was issued before the incident, political parties allege that it was done to please the Congress and the Gandhi family. The Election...
12:29 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: A day before Uttar Pradesh votes on Wednesday in the first phase of assembly elections, there is already a controversy brewing. A poll observer, who stopped Priyanka Gandhi's husband Robert Vadra's motorcycle rally in the Gandhi bastion of Amethi for violating the model code of conduct, has been transferred to Goa. However, reacting to CNN-IBN report, the Election Commission claims that the transfer of IAS officer Pawan Sen...
08:39 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Panaji: The BJP in Goa has requested Election Commission (EC) to involve local Church in spreading awareness about curbing malpractices during polls. A BJP delegation led by its State unit chief Laxmikant Parsekar today met Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi, who is in Panaji, and discussed various issues ahead of the March 3 Assembly polls. "We have requested the EC to actively involve Church in spreading awareness about malpractices during...
01:43 AM, Feb 02, 2012
