NEW DELHI: Adopting a back-to-basics approach in the face of prolonged political slump, Congress is mulling leaving major decision-making functions to its district units, the building blocks of the party organisation which have been marginalised in the recent decades.Sources said the idea of reorganising the party around District Congress Committees (DCCs) was discussed in the…
KOLKATA: Congress’s inflexibility in Delhi and AAP‘s intransigence in Haryana led to BJP victories in assembly elections there, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday while declaring that Trinamool Congress wasn’t banking on anyone’s support to return to govt in the state by a two-thirds majority next year.“We won’t need anybody’s support. But everyone in…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission has brought changes in electoral rules to specify that CCTV footage of poll booths will not come under the category of “documents” to be made available to contestants and general public. Before the amendment, the provision under Section 93(2) of the Conduct of Election Rules said “all other papers relating to…
NEW DELHI: The Centre has amended Rule 93 of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, to limit public access to certain electronic documents with the aim of preventing the misuse of electronic election records. This includes CCTV camera and webcasting footage, as well as video recordings of candidates, during the election process.The Union law ministry’s…
NEW DELHI: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday rejected Congress‘s claims of tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the Haryana assembly elections.Speaking to news agency ANI responded to questions being raised by opposition parties over EVMs and said, “the public answers the questions by participating in the voting. As far as the EVMs…
NEW DELHI: After meeting the Election Commission of India (ECI) officials on Wednesday the delegation of the Congress party said it has submitted the complaints of EVMs from seven Haryana assembly constituencies to the poll body.Bhupinder Hooda, who was leading Congress’s Haryana poll campaign, said the Election Commission has assured them that it would look…
NEW DELHI: Keeping his ante against Congress a day after Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir assembly election results, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday once again targeted Congress for its defeat and accused the grand old party of deliberately creating a “fear psychosis” among Muslims.Speaking at an event in which he laid foundation stone for…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the party workers at BJP headquarters after a thumping victory in the Haryana assembly elections. The saffron party will be forming the government for the record third time in the state after securing 48 seats in the 90-seat assembly. Prime Minister Modi while addressing the workers said Haryana…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday targeted Congress while hailing the historic mandate in Haryana and noting the increased vote share in Jammu and Kashmir. He also brought back his “parasite” analogy to hit out at Congress while accusing it of dividing the nation based on caste.“Guarantee of ‘vikas’ (development) prevailed over a…
NEW DELHI: The exit polls have got it wrong once again. In Haryana, the BJP has scored an emphatic victory over the Congress, while in J&K, the National Conference-Congress alliance has won a majority. Both these results are contrary to what the pollsters had predicted in the exit polls.The poll of exit polls in Haryana…
