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Mehboob, however, admitted that a section of voters from those communities, who had earlier supported the Left, could have voted against it
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Says INDIA bloc will continue to protest over electoral roll issues; rules out UCC in J&K, opposes deportation of Rohingyas
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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath’s remarks came in the context of SP nominating senior Reliance Industries executive Dhanraj Parimal Nathwani to RS in the election this month.
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“Across the State, BJP workers are withdrawing the objections that they had filed against the inclusion of eligible voters under the Election Commission (EC) of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
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The party is sifting grassroots feedback on probable candidates before the October 18 nomination deadline
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The Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav says 220 of 236 candidates from the constituency cleared the recent Agniveer recruitment after coaching; the programme is backed by Samskruti Seva Samithi and S.V. Defence Academy
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The Delhi High Court has disposed of a petition filed by two voters whose names were deleted from the electoral rolls after they could not complete the enumeration process during the Special Intensive...
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The alliance will face its first electoral test in the October 23 elections to four Legislative Council constituencies
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While thousands of names have been deleted from electoral rolls using auto-generated Form 7s digitally signed by Electoral Registration Officers, no written communication or Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) has been shared with the election authorities in the States in this regard; according to…
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The Mini Vidhana Soudha premises were crowded with supporters of both parties, reflecting the heightened political activity surrounding the election
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The party fields candidates for seven of the 13 municipal corporations going to the polls on October 28
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Telangana Pradesh Congress Seva Dal president Middela Jitender claims that SIR exercise undermined citizens’ voting rights and posed a serious threat to the democratic process
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Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy says YouTube reels made by parents showing their children pestering them to vote for TVK during the 2026 elections were in bad taste and reflected poor parenting
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Pune’s 11-day sit-in ended with the MPSC chairman on leave. With a campus elections panel and a BMC fellowship, the BJP appears to be trying a new approach to young protesters.
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When voters begin to feel electoral outcomes are predetermined, participation risks losing its meaning. It would be a cardinal mistake to consider the current moment of electoral breakdown as anything less than the active sabotage of the republic.
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The Congress march against SIR has laid bare the uneasy relationship between the opposition’s old guard and a younger generation of activists seeking a political role of their own.
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Protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar follow the precedent of the July agitation that ousted Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. His removal would be read as admitting the opposition’s charge, and protesters vow to continue.
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The CPI(M) MP on the SIR protests, dissent in India, and why the current movement will be a landmark resistance against the Modi government.
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‘This appears to be a similar playbook to what the Trump administration is doing...to undermine voting rights in a democracy’ the Congresswoman said.
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In Puducherry’s Thattanchavady, a crowded bypoll battlefield unfolds for October 6, 2026, as the Congress, DMK, AINRC, and CPI vie for the urban seat after Chief Minister N. Rangasamy vacated it to retain Mangalam in April’s polls
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With people-first theme, Divya Mittal says ‘Jan Neeti Bharat’ aims to bring people directly into decision-making process and ensure govt policies reflect their actual needs.
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Before the 2025-2026 SIR, intensive revision of electoral rolls, in all or some parts of India, was undertaken in 1952-56, 1958-61, 1965-66, 1983-84, 1987-88, 1993, 1995, and 2002-2004.
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The protests have blown the lid off a growing number of grievances: SIR, inflation, farm distress, education inequality, rising health costs.
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Supreme Court must rethink its May 2026 judgment upholding the constitutionality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, particularly when the process permits deletion of voters merely for...
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