AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa has urged the Election Commission of India to see that retired government employees who are re-hired on contract basis by Tamil Nadu government are not deputed for election duty.
Citing the decision of the Tamil Nadu government to hire retired government employees on contract basis Jayalalithaa in a letter written to [...]
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Election Commission Tuesday termed the Gujarat government’s move to make voting compulsory in local body elections as ‘full of difficulties’ even as the issue has evoked a larger national debate in the country.
‘Such proposals had come up for discussion in the commission on many occasions earlier. For India, it [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla Monday said there were difficulties in making voting compulsory in the country due to the huge size of the electorate.
Participating in a question-answer session after delivering a lecture on ‘Electoral Democracy in India’ at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), he said there were [...]
New Delhi, Dec 21 (IANS) After allowing transgenders a separate ‘third’ identity on electoral rolls, the Election Commission has decided to write to the government to allow under-trials to vote in elections.
Replying to queries from the gathering after delivering the Second Mother Teresa Memorial Lecture at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) here Monday, [...]
Kolkata, Nov 20 (IANS) To get more young people to vote, the Election Commission (EC) is planning to issue temporary Electronic Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) to students settled outside their home states.
‘We’re discussing about this facility with our Chief Electoral Officers (CEO) so that an 18-year-old student, who is studying in any outside state for [...]
Kolkata, Nov 20 (IANS) The entire electorate in India will be issued the Electronic Photo Identity Card (EPIC) within the next two years, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla said Friday.
‘We expect the EC will be able to cover the country’s 740 million voting population with the issuance of EPIC in less than next two years. [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) The Election Commission Thursday decided to allow eunuchs and transsexuals to indicate their sex as ‘Other’ in the electoral roll.
‘Enumerators and Booth Level Officers (BLOs) shall be instructed to indicate the sex of eunuchs/transsexuals etc. as ‘O’ if they so desire, while undertaking any house-to-house enumeration/verification of any application,’ the [...]
Ranchi, Nov 3 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla Tuesday arrived in this Jharkhand capital to review the poll preparation in the state for assembly elections beginning Nov 25.
Chawla held a meeting with senior government officials and deputy commissioners of all 24 districts.
According to officials, he reviewed the law and order situation, including Maoist menace, [...]
Ranchi, Oct 26(ANI): Muslim groups and political parties in Jharkhand have requested the Election Commission of India (ECI) to change the date of the poll from November 27, citing Bakr-Eid festival as the reason.
The ECI has announced a five-phase election schedule for the Jharkhand Assembly, which will be held from November 27 to December 18, [...]
New Delhi, Oct 26 (ANI): Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla will begin his four-day official visit to Bhutan from today.
The visit is being held at the invitation of the Chief Election Commissioner of Bhutan, Kunzang Wangdi.
The main focus of the visit is bilateral discussions in the matter of election management.
During his visit, [...]
New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla visits Bhutan Monday on the invitation of the Himalayan kingdom’s poll panel chief to discuss election management in the new democracy.
‘The visit is at the invitation of Chief Election Commissioner of Bhutan Kunzang Wangdi and the main focus of the visit is bilateral discussions in [...]
New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla will start his four-day official visit to Bhutan Monday, his office said here.
‘The visit is at the invitation of Chief Election Commissioner of Bhutan Kunzang Wangdi and the main focus of the visit is bilateral discussions in the matter of election management,’ an Election Commission [...]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (ANI): The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday announced five-phase election schedule for the Jharkhand Assembly.
The poling will be held between November 27 to December 18.
At present the tribal dominated state is under president rule, after its assembly was suspended following the defeat of Chief Minister Sibu Soren in a [...]
New Delhi/Ranchi, Oct 23 (IANS) Staggered elections to the Jharkhand assembly will be held in five phases from Nov 27 to Dec 18, the poll panel announced Friday as political parties in the state welcomed the move.
Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla told reporters in Delhi that votes would be counted Dec 23 in the state, [...]
New Delhi/Ranchi, Oct 23 (IANS) Elections to the Jharkhand assembly would be held in five phases from Nov 27 to Dec 18, the poll panel announced in the capital Friday as political parties in the state began gearing up for the voting.
Votes would be counted on Dec 23, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla told reporters [...]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Elections to the Jharkhand assembly would be held in five phases from Nov 27 to Dec 18, the Election Commission announced here Friday.
Votes would be counted on Dec 23, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla told reporters.
With the Election Commission announcing the poll schedule, the model code of conduct comes into [...]
Kolkata, Oct 16 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Friday moved the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) complaining of ‘open violation’ of the model code by top Trinamool leaders in three areas of West Bengal’s Serampore assembly constituency, which is set to hold by-polls Nov 7.
In a letter to the CEC, Navin Chawla, CPI-M state [...]
New Delhi, Oct.13 (ANI): About 60 to 72 per cent voting was witnessed in Tuesday’s Assembly elections held in three States-Maharashtra, Haryana, and Arunachal Pradesh amidst sporadic violence in which one polling agent was killed.
Maharashtra registered 60 [...]
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) People in 22 polling stations in the Maoist-affected areas of Maharashtra, where poll officials could not reach Tuesday, will be given another opportunity to vote, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla said here.
Chawla said the polling was ‘very satisfactory’ and the ‘morale was extremely’ high in the Maoist-hit polling stations in [...]
New Delhi, Oct.13 (ANI): About 60 to 72 per cent voting was witnessed in Tuesday’s Assembly elections held in three States-Maharashtra, Haryana, and Arunachal Pradesh amidst sporadic violence in which one polling agent was killed.
Maharashtra registered 60 [...]
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) The assembly elections in three states Tuesday recorded heavy polling, varying from 60 percent in Maharashtra to 66 percent in Haryana and 72 percent in Arunachal Pradesh, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla said.
‘The polling percentage may go up,’ he told reporters here.
Chawla, who was flanked by Election Commissioners S.Y. Qureshi [...]
New Delhi, Oct. 7 (ANI): Ahead of Maharashtra assembly polls, chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla has said that voters should go with their families at polling booths in order to prevent bogus voting.
“It is necessary because the ration cards in Maharashtra [...]
Chandigarh, Sep 5 (ANI): The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday visited Haryana and met leaders of various political parties to review arrangements being made prior to the Haryana Assembly elections scheduled to be held on October 13.
Chief Election Commissioner [...]
