"election-commission"

Strict action, and not mere advisories, against violators of election code of conduct, irrespective of their position, will help restore confidence in EC

Incidentally, a majority of the voters who skipped the polling are from urban areas.

Polling which began at 7 am ended 6 pm, barring a few places where it concluded early.

He said a five-member BJP team was conducting door-to-door campaign in Peddamma Nagar at Borabanda on Tuesday.

"The machine belongs to my father. Only one thing works - that is BJP," says Vijay Bhabhor before pressing a button on the EVM, as per the video.

"If the CM was concerned about the farmers, he would have released the amount much before the announcement of the poll schedule. He is deceiving the farmers. He has no intention to release the amount,"he said.

The deadline expired on Wednesday, May 8, but the EC extended the deadline for two more days.

The BJP State unit had earlier complained against the Speaker campaigning for the Congress party.

He said the ECI had turned a blind eye to inflammatory statements made by Modi and Shah, despite receiving around 20,000 complaints from citizens.

Appreciating the efforts made by the Commission so far to improve the poll percentage, the Forum pointed out that while polling in Telangana was scheduled for May 13, the preceding two days, May 11 and 12, were holidays.

K.T. Rama Rao, the Working President of BRS, criticized the EC's decision, questioning the fairness of such actions.

The report had pointed out the extra hour could prompt more people to head to the polling station, especially those who work till 5 pm and those hesitant to venture out and stand in queues under the sweltering sun.

The Election Commission reports 318 withdrawals from Assembly polls and 49 from Lok Sabha contests.

The ECI also strictly warned her to remain careful in her public utterances during the Model Code of Conduct currently in force.

The Election Commission of India had asked State government to transfer P Sai Chaitanya, who was the DCP (south) and send a list of three IPS officer who can replace him.

Though it has been proved that the voting machines are tamper-proof, improved VVPAT machines will help curb glitches

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidate from Andhra Pradesh's Guntur constituency on Monday declared his family assets in the affidavit submitted to the Election Commission while filing his nomination for the May 13 election.

Following reports of violence at these polling stations in Manipur on April 19, the Election Commission has mandated a repolling.

Claiming that the Congress had not "humiliated" the Left, he said the Modi government was destroying all the pillars of democracy, including the Supreme Court, Election Commission and central probe agencies like the ED, Income Tax and CBI.

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and Bharatiya Janata Party have announced candidates for all the 17 Lok Sabha constituencies while the Congress party is yet to declare candidates for the three constituencies of Hyderabad, Karimnagar and Khammam.