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Budget 2025-26: Law ministry gets over Rs 14,000 cr for carry forward expenditure on LS polls, EVMsThe Union Budget 2025-26 allocates over Rs 1,400 crore to the law ministry for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. This includes Rs 500 crore for...- Legislative Department organises meetings with EC officers in matters related to electoral reforms, says Law MinistryAnd that the meeting dated November 16 was to finalise the Cabinet Note on some of the reforms and it was held virtually. "The subsequent i...
- PMO holds informal interaction with ECs on electoral reforms; sources say no improprietyThe sources said amid a series of correspondence between the government and the poll panel on electoral reforms, the Prime Minister's Offic...
- EC defers bypolls for one LS, 7 assembly seats due to "extraordinary circumstances"The states where the bypolls have been deferred are --Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, two assembly seats each in Tamil Nadu and Utta...
- Law Ministry gets additional Rs 666.66 crore for conducting Lok Sabha pollsThe Law Ministry is the administrative ministry for the Election Commission. Certain funds are also allocated to the Home Ministry for elec...
- Election Commission flagged bond concerns a year ago, but government tells House it hasn’tThe finance ministry said that electoral bonds worth Rs 1,056.73 crore were purchased via six tranches since the scheme’s launch in January...
- Govt no to EC proposal on dues clearance for contesting pollsEC had written to the law ministry urging it to amend election laws to include failure to clear dues of public utilities as a disqualificat...
- Election Commission tells parliamentary committee: We do not support state funding of pollsState funding of polls imply the govt providing funds to parties and candidates to fight elections, replacing the existing system of plough...
- Finance Ministry approves buying 14 lakh new EVMsLaw Minister D V Sadananda Gowda had recently urged Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to help expedite the approval process.
- Election Commission proposal on foreign funding under government considerationAn Election Commission proposal to bring a law to prohibit electoral trusts from accepting funds from foreign sources is being "actively" c...
- Poll panel wants Constitutional protection for Election CommissionersThe Election Commission is learnt to have today pitched for giving equal constitutional protection to all members of the poll body.
- Election Commission to push multiple cut-off dates proposal to enrol votersBut according to the Law Ministry, a change in rules or even an amendment to the Representation of the People Act will not help.
- Process started for amending law for proxy voting by NRIsThe Election Commission has set up a committee to suggest amendments to the Act of 1951 with a mandate of submitting a report by February 2...
- Political parties oppose Election Commission’s transparency normsSpecifically, the parties have opposed disclosure of anonymous unaccounted receipts and demanded that the EC circular on the issue be withd...
- Election Commission plan on young voters' enrolment faces legal hurdleEC had earlier this year told the government that the January 1 cut-off date set for the purpose deprives several youths from participating...
- EC not to ban opinion polls; wants Centre to make lawIt told the Law Ministry that since exit polls were also restricted by law, it should follow similar procedure on opinion polls.
- Election Commission to seek probe into sting operation on opinion pollsThe EC will also make a fresh pitch for banning of opinion polls by drawing the attention of the law ministry, information & broadcasting m...
- BJP only backer for opinion pollsEC has written to the law ministry reiterating its long-standing proposal for banning publishing and dissemination of opinion poll results.
- Law Ministry asks EC to consult parties afresh on opinion poll banSibal sent the file back to EC asking it to consult the parties again and seek their views afresh on the issue.
- ECS likely to mull Cairn India's proposal to lay pipelineECS will consider shifting crude oil delivery point from the Rajasthan field flange to Salaya in Gujarat with the cost of laying the 585-km...
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