Supreme Court dismisses sacked BSF jawan’s plea against PM Modi’s election from Varanasi

The sacked jawan, Tej Bahadur Yadav, alleged that the election body rejected his nomination for ‘extraneous reasons’ during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

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· Nov 24, 2020 · 02:32 pm

Sacked BSF soldier’s plea challenging Modi’s election from Varanasi dismissed

Tej Bahadur Yadav’s nomination papers to contest the Lok Sabha elections against Narendra Modi were rejected by the Election Commission in May.

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· Dec 06, 2019 · 05:55 pm

Lok Sabha polls: NGOs urge Supreme Court to order inquiry into ‘discrepancies’ in election data

Association for Democratic Reforms and Common Cause claimed that voter turnout figures and the number of votes counted in 347 constituencies did not match.

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· Nov 21, 2019 · 03:35 pm

Lok Sabha polls: Row after DMK’s expenditure affidavit reveals it donated Rs 25 crore to CPI, CPI(M)

The Left parties are in a tight spot since the amount has not been mentioned in its election expenditure affidavit so far.

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· Sep 24, 2019 · 01:31 pm

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Polls were rescinded in April following allegations of money being used to influence voters.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