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Congress President Shr Mallikarjun Kharge named senior lawyer Abhishek Singhvi as a member of the Empowered Action Group of Leaders and Experts (EAGLE) with immediate effect, to monitor the conduct of free and fair elections by the Election Commission of India.

Congress sets up panel to monitor conduct of fair polls by EC

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New Delhi, Feb 2 (PTI) The Congress on Sunday set up an eight-member committee — Empowered Action Group of Leaders and Experts (EAGLE) — to monitor the conduct of free and fair elections by the Election Commission of India. The committee will first take up the Maharashtra voters’ list manipulation issue, and submit a detailed

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Nirvachan Sadan, the Election Commission of India headquarters in New Delhi. (Photo: Getty Image)

Election rules row: Supreme Court orders EC to preserve video clips of polling

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New Delhi, Jan 31 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Election Commission of India to preserve video clips of the polling during the pendency of the pleas against the decision to increase the maximum number of voters per polling station from 1,200 to 1,500. A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge

EC’s independence ‘severely compromised’ by PM-HM duo: Congress

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New Delhi, Jan 25 (PTI) The Congress hit out at the Election Commission on Saturday, saying the “self-congratulation” on National Voters’ Day would not obscure the fact that the poll panel as it has been functioning makes a “mockery” of the Constitution and is an insult to the voters themselves. The opposition party also alleged

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The people now have suspicions about the EVM elections verdict. The outcome is such that it fuels doubts in public minds. The masses feel that 'there is something wrong somewhere'. When the whole world is using ballot papers then why not India? There's a need to change the election system," declares Nationalist Congress Party (SP) President Sharad Pawar in Markadwadi village in Malshiras constituency of Solapur district of Maharashtra, on 8 December, Sunday.

Maharashtra Congress chief urges ECI, SC to consider ‘public demand’ for ballot paper voting

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Mumbai, Dec 9 (PTI) Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole has urged the Supreme Court and the Election Commission to take note of the “growing public demand” for ballot paper voting in view of “doubts” about the mandate in assembly elections. The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi has upped the ante against electronic voting machines (EVMs) after

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