Tag: By-election

  • West Bengal: Amid elections, by-poll held in Sagardighi

    By means of Specific Information Provider

    KOLKATA: Although no incident of violence was once reported in Sagardighi by-election in Murshidabad on Monday, each the Congress and the BJP alleged the ruling Trinamool Congress supporters attempted to steer citizens in lots of puts through violating the election fee’s strict restriction on no meeting inside the 200 metres of polling cubicles.

    A by-election within the Meeting constituency, the place the TMC received for 3 directly phrases since 2011, was once necessitated after three-time MLA and state minister kicked the bucket in December, final yr.

    TMC activists additionally accused BJP candidate Dilip Biswas of the usage of central drive to violate norms. Debasish Banerjee alleged he was once stopped through the central drive group of workers when he was once getting into a polling sales space. Banerjee was once alternatively allowed to go into the sales space after the presiding officer intervened.

    The Meeting constituency recorded 73.49 in step with cent polling until 5 pm.

    Flooded through the lawsuits of unauthorised meeting close to polling premises, the election fee issued a contemporary instruction to the district management to practice the restriction strictly.      

    Bairun Biswas, the candidate of Congress-Left Entrance alliance, alleged highhandedness through TMC males. “They had been sitting close to polling cubicles with fashions of EVMs and appearing it to the citizens asking them press the button in their celebration. Our supporters attempted to prevent them however they compelled our staff to depart where. Police, too, stood mute spectators,” he alleged.

    KOLKATA: Although no incident of violence was once reported in Sagardighi by-election in Murshidabad on Monday, each the Congress and the BJP alleged the ruling Trinamool Congress supporters attempted to steer citizens in lots of puts through violating the election fee’s strict restriction on no meeting inside the 200 metres of polling cubicles.

    A by-election within the Meeting constituency, the place the TMC received for 3 directly phrases since 2011, was once necessitated after three-time MLA and state minister kicked the bucket in December, final yr.

    TMC activists additionally accused BJP candidate Dilip Biswas of the usage of central drive to violate norms. Debasish Banerjee alleged he was once stopped through the central drive group of workers when he was once getting into a polling sales space. Banerjee was once alternatively allowed to go into the sales space after the presiding officer intervened.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The Meeting constituency recorded 73.49 in step with cent polling until 5 pm.

    Flooded through the lawsuits of unauthorised meeting close to polling premises, the election fee issued a contemporary instruction to the district management to practice the restriction strictly.      

    Bairun Biswas, the candidate of Congress-Left Entrance alliance, alleged highhandedness through TMC males. “They had been sitting close to polling cubicles with fashions of EVMs and appearing it to the citizens asking them press the button in their celebration. Our supporters attempted to prevent them however they compelled our staff to depart where. Police, too, stood mute spectators,” he alleged.

  • BJP MLA strolling with envelopes stuffed with cash… Akhilesh Yadav’s assault on Gola Gokarnath by-election

    Lucknow: The vote casting procedure within the Gola Gokarnath Meeting seat by-election in Lakhimpurkhiri district of Uttar Pradesh ended effectively on Thursday. On this by-election, there’s an immediate contest between BJP and SP applicants. The BJP has fielded Arvind Giri’s son Aman Giri. Vinay Tiwari is the candidate from SP. On the identical time, as quickly because the vote casting ended, the Samajwadi Birthday celebration introduced a scathing assault at the BJP.

    SP leader Akhilesh Yadav mentioned that after SP was once observed getting unparalleled public fortify on this by-election, BJP was once already surprised taking into consideration its defeat. On the identical time, he additionally accused SP employees and leaders of forcibly choosing them up and placing them in jails. The Gola Gokarnath seat fell vacant because of the demise of BJP MLA Arvind Giri on September 6 because of a middle assault.

    Police-administration running as BJP workers- SP
    SP leader Akhilesh Yadav has made a powerful assault on BJP, he mentioned that it’s not imaginable to have unfastened and truthful elections any place. The police-administration being utterly BJP employees has been much less paintings. Akhilesh alleged that the electorate weren’t allowed to vote freely with a purpose to win the Gola Gokarnath by-election via rigged BJP. He mentioned that the Leader Election Commissioner had already been apprised of all of the eventualities however the promptness with which the motion will have to were taken was once no longer accomplished. Which is an alarm bell for democracy.

    Call for for motion in opposition to BJP MLAs
    On the identical time, the SP leader additionally made severe allegations in opposition to the BJP MLAs in his observation. He demanded an inquiry in opposition to the BJP MLA who was once roaming round with envelopes stuffed with cash in his automotive. Together with this, BJP MLA from Mohammadi has been accused of looking to affect the polling via roaming at sales space quantity 333, 334, 337 of Secunderabad. Now not simplest this, Akhilesh additionally accused SP employees and electorate of attack.

    Akhilesh made severe allegations
    Akhilesh mentioned that at many polling stations, polling was once not on time for a very long time because of malfunctioning of EVMs. Additionally alleged that the police unnecessarily stuck the previous sales space in-charge Jubeir and Harinagar’s former head Main Singh Bittu. BJP supporters have occupied the polling stations of Lalapur, Madanpur, Lakshmanjati villages of the similar space and drove away Muslims and SP electorate and sales space in-charges from there. He mentioned that unnecessarily police lathi-charged the electorate of the respective village of Sales space No. 324, 325, 326 Rampur, because of which the polling was once disrupted. Electorate are scared. Within the sales space quantity 260-261-262 of the similar space, the BLO didn’t distribute the slip to vote. Regardless of appearing Aadhar card and voter ID, the electorate weren’t allowed to vote via the officers.

    Akhilesh’s criticism to Election Fee
    Akhilesh mentioned that it’s the constitutional accountability of the Election Fee of India to habits unfastened and truthful elections via offering simple vote casting alternatives to the electorate, whilst failure has been proven to take strict motion in opposition to the officers of the involved police-administration. It’s herbal to lift questions at the credibility of the Election Fee.

    UP Bypolls: What’s the surroundings between vote casting in Lakhimpur Kheri? Why was once there a dispute over a sales space?

  • UP MLC Via-Election 2022: Via-elections can be hung on 2 vacant MLC seats in UP, balloting can be hung on August 11

    Lucknow: Via-elections are to be hung on 2 Legislative Council seats of Uttar Pradesh. On this, one seat used to be vacant after the demise of senior Samajwadi Birthday celebration chief Ahmed Hassan, whilst the opposite seat fell vacant after the resignation of Thakur Jaiveer Singh on March 24, 2022. For which balloting will now be hung on August 11 in each the MLC seats.

    Balloting on August 11
    The Leader Electoral Officer stated {that a} notification can be issued on July 25, 2022 for the election of the vacant Legislative Council individuals. Informed that the ultimate date for nomination has been mounted on August 1, 2022, scrutiny of nomination papers on August 2 and withdrawal of nominations on August 4. On August 11, polling can be held from 9 am to 4 pm. On the identical time, the Leader Electoral Officer stated that the counting of votes will get started from 5 pm at the identical day. He stated that the election procedure could be finished prior to August 16.

    Ahmed Hassan is useless
    Ahmed Hassan, a senior chief of the Samajwadi Birthday celebration, died on 20 February 2022, and then the Legislative Council seat fell vacant. SP chief Ahmed Hassan’s MLC time period used to be to finish on January 30, 2027. However, Thakur Jaiveer Singh had resigned from the put up of member of the Legislative Council on 24 March, his tenure used to be until 5 Might 2024.
    Document – Abhay Singh