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SC to hear on Mar 18 plea to debar poll candidates charged for serious offencesThe Supreme Court is set to hear a plea seeking to debar candidates with serious charges from polls on March 18. The plea, based on increas...- NOTA option ineffective in weeding out candidates with criminal past"We can infer that people in big cities at least were using the option to reject unfit candidates," head of ADR and Election Watch, former ...
- Would require legislative amendments, EC to SC on decriminalisation of politicsIn an affidavit, citing its "Proposed Electoral Reforms, 2016", the EC said it had reiterated its 2004 recommendation that persons charged ...
- Have actively taken steps for decriminalisation of politics: EC to SCThe poll panel told the apex court that in its "Proposed Electoral Reforms, 2016", it had reiterated its 2004 recommendation that people ch...
- Perfect match between VVPAT and EVM count in just-held polls: EC sourcesNo mismatch was found in the counting of paper trail machine slips and votes polled in EVMs in the assembly elections in Gujarat and Himach...
- Plea for compulsory masking during poll campaigns: HC seeks stand of Centre, ECThe court listed the application for further hearing on April 30 along with Singh's main petition seeking to debar campaigners and candidat...
- EC reduces campaigning ban on BJP's Himanta Biswa Sarma from 48 hours to 24 hoursThe poll panel order said the commission has decided to modify its April 2 order and reduce the period of debarment from election campaign ...
- COVID-19: HC asks Centre, EC to respond to plea for debarring poll campaigners without masksA bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh issued notice to the Centre and the Election Commission (EC) on the petition a...
- COVID-19: Plea in HC to direct Centre, EC to debar candidates canvassing without masks for pollsThe petition said every person has the fundamental right to life, which is being impacted by political leaders, campaigners and candidates ...
- Election Commission starts work on ad template for ‘criminal’ netasSources in the poll panel indicated that the idea is to have a standardised format for reporting of criminal antecedents of a candidate aft...
- 'Clean politics' bill gathering dust for 2 yearsThe draft bill-Representation of People Act (Amendment) Bill-is pending since 2014 when it was first scheduled to be tabled in the winter s...
- Rajya Sabha polls: Supreme Court declines relief to BJP MLA from MPThe apex court, while accepting his appeal for hearing, had allowed Rajendra Kumar Meshram to participate in the assembly proceedings witho...
- Haryana decides to make basic education, toilets must for panchayat poll candidatesHaryana government has decided to make it mandatory for panchayat poll candidates to have education upto class X and functional toilets at ...
- Narendra Modi government defers draft bill to bar tainted politicians from contesting pollsThe draft bill proposes such politicians shall remain disqualified from contesting polls till his acquittal or six years after serving the ...
- Leaders charged with heinous crimes may be barred from polls for 13 yearsAs of now, there is no restriction on a candidate to contest elections unless he has been convicted by a court.
- Independents in Lok Sabha polls: 0.53 per cent success rate since 1952The country's electoral history has seen over 41,000 Independents contesting Lok Sabha polls till now but only 221 of them have won.
- Tainted candidates should be barred from polls: Election Commission, expertsThe national consultation on electoral reforms saw the Election Commission, NGOs and various legal experts pitching for debarring candidate...
- Election Commission bars 2171 candidates from contesting election for not disclosing expenditure detailsThese candidates will face the bar for three years from the date of disqualification by the Commission, with the maximum being up to Januar...
- Congress in a flux over a 'criminal' granted ticket for TMC pollsCongress poll managers are red faced over a move to award ticket to a party functionary having criminal antecedents for February 16 municip...
- Debar booked persons from polls: GopalaswamiFormer CEC N Gopalaswami on Tuesday sought to reiterate the poll panel’s suggestion to the government to debar even chargesheeted persons, ...
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