Uddhav Thackeray, Rahul Gandhi. (Photo/Agencies) MUMBAI/PUNE/NAGPUR: A day after Jammu & Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah sought clarity on whether INDIA bloc had reached its expiry date, the alliance’s Maharashtra-specific version, MVA, on Friday seemed to implode into a blame game over its recent assembly election defeat.Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said that now his…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Tuesday put out a point-by-point clarification dismissing Congress’s concerns regarding the “inexplicable” increase in voter turnout between 5 pm and 11.30 pm on poll day in Maharashtra and also ruling out any “arbitrary” deletions and additions in the state’s electoral roll.The party had approached EC after its drubbing in Maharashtra…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Tuesday clarified the misconception regarding the jump in voting percentage in Maharashtra that occurred on polling day and said that the increase in voter turnout from 5 pm to 11:45 pm is normal. Last month, the Congress raised doubts about the jump in voting percentage in Maharashtra on polling…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla launched a scathing attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday, labeling the Lok Sabha Opposition Leader as the ‘Leader of propaganda’, ‘Leader of photography’ and ‘Leader of panga’. Poonawalla noted that the Congress party‘s recent electoral defeats in Haryana and Maharashtra had led to their current…
MUMBAI: “An analysis of the results has made it clear – ‘Ek hain toh safe hain’,” said Devendra Fadnavis. In his address to BJP legislators at Vidhan Bhavan central hall Wednesday after being elected legislative party leader, Fadnavis said after the LS polls setback, the series of electoral victories resumed with Haryana results and the…
NEW DELHI: A Congress delegation raised concerns with Election Commission on Tuesday over alleged anomalies in updation of electoral rolls and post-poll surge in electoral turnout in Maharashtra elections, leading the poll panel to respond with a point-by-point clarification on all the doubts expressed by the opposition party. The Congress delegation, comprising Rajya Sabha MP…
PUNE: Markadwadi in Solapur, Maharashtra, where most voters are MVA supporters, will go to polls again, though unofficially, on Tuesday, this time using ballot papers to challenge EC’s data. Markadwadi falls under Malshiras assembly constituency in Solapur, where NCP (SP)’s Uttamrao Jankar defeated BJP’s former MLA Ram Satpute. Jankar won, but his MVA supporters from…
PUNE: Eleven assembly poll candidates, including NCP (SP)’s Baramati nominee Yugendra Pawar, have submitted applications to district administration seeking verification of microcontrollers of 137 EVM sets used in their constituencies during the recently concluded Maharashtra elections and have collectively paid Rs 66.6 lakh for the process. Among other key candidates who have applied for verification…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission, in its interim response Saturday to concerns raised by Congress regarding “arbitrary deletion and additions of voters” and increase in voting percentages between 5pm and 11.30pm on polling day in the recent Maharashtra and Jharkhand elections, reiterated that electoral roll updation is a transparent process conducted with the involvement of all…
Just days after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge sought a return to ballot papers. NEW DELHI: Alleging that the Maharashtra elections were compromised, Congress Friday told EC there was an “inexplicable” rise in turnout in the last hour that added 76 lakh votes, and the governing BJP alliance manipulated the voters list resulting in an “inexplicable”…
