TMC MPs' NCPI merger bid revives memories of Arunachal's Khandu playbookTwenty rebel Trinamool Congress MPs plan to merge with a lesser-known party. This move echoes a 2016 Arunachal Pradesh political realignmen...
From Rs 75 in cash to the Lok Sabha spotlight: The obscure party at the centre of the TMC rebellionAn unknown political party, the Nationalist Citizens Party of India, is now central to national politics. Twenty Trinamool Congress MPs ann...
From Rs 75 in cash to the heart of a TMC revolt: The unlikely political journey of NCPIThe Nationalist Citizens Party of India, NCPI, a little-known outfit with just Rs 75 cash, is now in the national spotlight. Twenty disside...
'Reject political turncoats': Slogan of obscure party now welcoming TMC rebelsA small political party, the Nationalist Citizens Party of India, has unexpectedly entered national politics. This happened after twenty Lo...
40 pc of winning candidates in WB polls secured less than 50 pc vote share: ADR ReportWest Bengal Assembly election results show a significant trend. Nearly 40 percent of victorious candidates won with less than half the vote...
Election results: Few takers for NOTA option; crosses 1% mark in AssamVoters again showed little interest in the 'None of the Above' or NOTA option during recent assembly elections. Data reveals NOTA usage rem...
Lok Sabha Elections: 68% of candidates in Jammu & Kashmir polled fewer than NOTA votes68% of the 100 candidates in Jammu and Kashmir's five Lok Sabha seats received fewer votes than NOTA, as per Election Commission data.
NOTA could be effective only if more than 50 pc voters opt for it: Ex-CEC OP RawatFormer Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat said that 'NOTA' has only symbolic significance and needs over 50% votes in a seat to be legall...
Supreme Court issues notice to EC on plea seeking re-election where NOTA gets majority voteA bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud issued notice to the Election Commission of India on Shiv Khera's plea seeking dire...
Less than 1% voters opted for NOTA in MP, Raj, Telangana; 1.29 per cent in ChhattisgarhIn Madhya Pradesh, 0.99 per cent of the voters went for the NOTA option out of total voter turnout of 77.15 per cent. In neighbouring Chhat...
1.29 crore votes cast for NOTA in last five years: ADRAmong the NOTA votes in Lok Sabha elections, the highest number of votes i.e., 51,660 was in Gopalganj (SC) constituency in Bihar while the...
Loss margins of 22 UP candidates less than NOTA votesThe margins of loss for 22 candidates, including SP's 13, were less than the Nota votes polled in their constituencies. Dharam Singh Saini,...
NOTA votes rise, turn big factor in many seatsIn the recent assembly election in Maharashtra, the number of voters choosing NOTA in Latur (Rural) and Palus-Kadegaon constituencies was s...
Poll panel to seek parties’ view on repoll if Nota winsThe EC decision follows the Maharashtra State Election Commission’s (MSEC) recent order for local body polls that fresh elections should be...
NOTA stood third in five Chhattisgarh constituenciesNone Of The Above (NOTA) option was the third choice of voters in five of the eleven Lok Sabha constituencies of Chhattisgarh.
Election 2014 results: NOTA garners 1.1% of country’s total vote shareThe fourth position went to the non-extremism-hit constituency of Banswara in Rajasthan with 34,404 people exercising the NOTA option.
Chhattisgarh Assembly elections: NOTA matches victory margin in 45 seatsIn Chhattisgarh, a total of 4.6% of voters opted for NOTA, it was 1.92% in Rajasthan, 1.9% in Madhya Pradesh and 0.63% in Delhi.