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The Election Commission of India ordered the transfer of IPS officer K.A. Senthil Velan, appointing Avinash Kumar as IG (Intelligence) ahead of Tamil Nadu polls. The move aims to ensure neutrality, transparency, and free, fair elections

BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao has urged party workers to focus municipal election campaigns on civic issues and the Congress government’s unfulfilled promises, accusing Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of using abusive rhetoric to divert attention from governance failures.

The Election Commission on April 27 had banned all victory processions after counting of votes in states where assembly polls were held to check the spread of coronavirus.

Elections to 294 constituencies in the state will be held in eight phases till April 29 and the results will be declared on May 2.

Polling for 31 DDC seats -- 13 in Kashmir division and 18 in Jammu division -- began at 7 am.

More than 100 million Indonesians are registered to vote in the poll staffed by almost 2.7 million election workers, some of whom were tasked with taking ballot boxes to hospitalised Covid patients.

The combined voter turnout in the two phases was recorded at 53.79 per cent till 5 PM, Election Commission said