Vellore Lok Sabha election: DMK candidate Kathir Anand wins by over 8,000 votes

The constituency had voted on Monday with a 71.51% turnout.

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· Aug 09, 2019 · 10:05 am

Tamil Nadu: 72% voting recorded in Vellore parliamentary election

AIADMK leader AC Shanmugam, DMK’s Kathir Anand and Naam Tamilar Katchi’s Deepa Lakshmi are the prominent candidates in the fray.

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· Aug 05, 2019 · 10:28 am

Allahabad High Court sends notice to PM Narendra Modi on plea challenging his election to Lok Sabha

The petition was filed by former Border Security Force constable Tej Bahadur Yadav, who had filed his nomination from Varanasi against Modi.

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· Jul 19, 2019 · 08:05 pm

AAP leader Raghav Chadha moves High Court against BJP candidate’s election from South Delhi

In his plea, Chadha alleged that Ramesh Bidhuri concealed a criminal case and falsified information in his affidavit.

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· Jul 04, 2019 · 06:37 pm

Election to Vellore Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu to be held on August 5, results on August 9

Polls were rescinded in April following allegations of money being used to influence voters.

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· Jul 04, 2019 · 03:46 pm

2019 elections seem to be among the ‘least free and fair’ in decades, claims group of ex-bureaucrats

In a letter to the ECI, they said its bias ‘towards one particular political party’ became obvious when it delayed the announcement of the election dates.

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· Jul 03, 2019 · 12:05 pm

A spatial analysis of Lok Sabha results shows BJP’s strategic growth across India

The map reemphasises the heterogeneity of voting behaviour in the country.

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· Jun 22, 2019 · 08:30 pm

BJP MP Sunny Deol gets EC notice for allegedly exceeding Rs 70-lakh spending limit during elections

The Gurdaspur district election officer said it was a ‘normal statutory notice’ that had been sent to every candidate for accounts reconciliation.

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· Jun 19, 2019 · 09:45 pm

Lok Sabha elections: ‘Attempts were made to mislead voters,’ says Sonia Gandhi in Rae Bareli

Gandhi also alleged that ‘many types of doubts’ had cropped up against the country’s electoral process.

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· Jun 13, 2019 · 12:36 pm

‘Lok Sabha polls were the most inclusive, enabled people with disabilities to vote,’ India tells UN

A senior government official highlighted India’s commitment to provide an enabling environment to people with disabilities.

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· Jun 12, 2019 · 06:57 pm

Delhi court asks Arvind Kejriwal to appear before it on July 16 for defamation case hearing

However, AAP leaders Sushil Kumar Gupta, Manoj Kumar and Atishi, who were named in BJP leader Rajiv Babbar’s complaint, were granted bail.

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· Jun 07, 2019 · 01:53 pm

BJP spent nearly 45% – or Rs 27,000 crore – of total expenditure for 2019 Lok Sabha polls: Report

The report by Centre for Media Studies said the scale of the expenditure was scary and should compel us to take corrective steps for a stronger democracy.

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· Jun 04, 2019 · 04:19 pm