Final electoral roll to be published on Jan. 5, 2024; addition, deletion, correction till Dec. 9, 2023 Bengaluru: The State Election Commission, responsible for preparations for next year’s Lok Sabha election scheduled for April or May 2024, released the draft voter list on its website yesterday. With this release, the Election Commission has initiated the…
Despite alliance with BJP, JD(S) is committed to its ideology: MP
September 27, 2023Holenarasipur: Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna has said that even though his party JD(S) has entered into an alliance with the BJP for the next Lok Sabha elections to be held next year, JD(S) will stay committed to its ideologies and nobody should have any doubt about this. “Our leaders have discussed the alliance with Muslim…
‘Explain to people why they should vote against me’
September 3, 2023MP Pratap Simha dares CM Siddharamaiah to show his 40-year contribution to Mysuru Mysore/Mysuru: Congress and Chief Minister Siddharamaiah faced scathing criticism from MP Pratap Simha, who accused the party of obstructing BJP and JD(S)’s vision for Greater Mysuru. Speaking to reporters in Mysuru yesterday, the MP elaborated on how the Congress appeared to lack…
Preparing for Lok Sabha Elections 2024: First-Level Checking of voting machines begins
August 1, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: The First-Level Checking (FLC) of the 1,500 new Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines that were brought to the city recently from Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Hyderabad, began this morning at the EVM Warehouse near the Office of the Deputy Commissioner at Siddarthanagar. The machines will…
Priyanka Vadra may contest from Mysuru or Chikkamagalur in 2024 LS polls
July 11, 2023Indira Gandhi’s victory from Chikkamagalur in 1978 gives hope to Congressmen Bengaluru: Is the Congress party preparing for a larger role for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the Lok Sabha (LS) elections approach, considering Rahul Gandhi’s uncertain electoral future due to a ban on contesting polls? Party insiders indicate that Priyanka has moved to the forefront…
LS Polls: Cash, contraband seizures cross Rs. 2,600 crore mark
April 19, 2019New Delhi: Since the announcement of the dates of the Lok Sabha elections in March, enforcement agencies have seized cash and contraband amounting to Rs. 2,600 crore as of Apr. 17 when compared to the Rs. 1,200 crore during the general election in 2014. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora confirmed that the total seizure…
Poll crackdown intensifies
March 21, 2019Cash, liquor worth over Rs. 1.24 crore seized in Mysuru Mysuru: Even as political parties are indulging in hectic parleys to zero-in on candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha Elections and even before prominent candidates filing their nomination papers, authorities responsible for conducting free and fair elections have tightened the grip on unaccounted cash, liquor…
Candidate photos on EVMs, cVIGIL app for transparency
March 11, 2019New Delhi: Voters in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will find, for the first time, the faces of the candidates along with their respective party symbols in the EVMs. The Election Commission (EC) is introducing a slew of new or improved measures as it aims to make the elections free, fair and transparent — with…
‘We are not beggars’: CM H.D. Kumaraswamy
February 19, 2019Mysuru: “We are not beggars to accept whatever number of seats the Congress party deigns to give us,” said an upset Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. He was reacting to a question from the media about how Congress was ready to part only with seven seats for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, after his inspection of…
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