SC to EC: Resolve all cases related to Modi, Shah by May 6

The Supreme Court told the Election Commission that all Congress’s complaints against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah on violations of the election model code of conduct should be resolved by Monday. Read More
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EC overrules its officers’ opinions, gives second clean chit to Modi

The Election Commission gave a second clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his appeal to first-time voters by invoking the Balakot air strike at a rally in Maharashtra’s Latur, just a day after it cleared Modi’s speech at Wardha under the model code of conduct. Read More
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Ex-BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav’s nomination from Varanasi rejected

The Election Commission, on Wednesday, cancelled the nomination of former Border Security Force jawan and SP-BSP alliance candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. Read More
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Priyanka says ‘I did not pull out of Varanasi’ against Modi

Priyanka Gandhi broke her silence on not contesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asserted that she did not “pull out of Varanasi”. She said it was a decision that her party took and she had to abide by that. Read More
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TMC moves EC against Modi for ‘horse trading’ during election

Mamata Banerjee demanded cancellation of Narendra Modi’s candidature for “shamelessly indulging in horse trading” during the Lok Sabha election after the PM claimed that “about 40 TMC MLAs are in touch with him and would switch sides once the BJP wins the election.” Read More
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Centre sends notice to Rahul over his ‘UK citizenship’ allegation

The ministry of home affairs sent a notice to Congress president Rahul Gandhi seeking a response to charges that he held “British" citizenship, leaving the party angered at the allegation. Read More
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‘MCC violation’ by Modi: SC seeks EC’s reply; poll panel clears PM

The Supreme Court sought the Election Commission’s response on a plea filed by Congress MP Sushmita Dev alleging model code of conduct violations by the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the BJP chief, Amit Shah, over their alleged hate speeches for “political propaganda”. Read More
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Rahul to file fresh apology to SC over ‘chowkidar chor hai’ misquote

Congress president Rahul Gandhi said he will apologize to the Supreme Court through a fresh affidavit for wrongly attributing the “chowkidar chor hai” remark and linking it with the top court’s order in Rafale case. Read More
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LS poll Phase 4: About 65% turnout, violence in Bengal

Voting for the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha election concluded covering 72 constituencies across nine states, including a part of Jammu & Kashmir’s Anantnag constituency. With this, voting has now taken place for 70 per cent of the Lok Sabha seats. Read More
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LS poll reach midway, social media still struggling to fight fake news

Social media is still scrambling to control the spread of election-related misinformation, even now that the three phases of voting are over with four phases to go and the polls have reached a midway. Read More
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