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28.9mn names deleted from draft roll| India News

28.9mn names deleted from draft roll| India News

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The name of nearly every fifth voter in Uttar Pradesh might be removed after the special intensive revision (SIR), as the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday published the draft roll that dropped 28.9 million people, marking the highest percentage of deletions among major states where the controversial exercise has been conducted. In all, for this round of the SIR that spanned 510 million people across 12 states and Union Territories, around 66 million names might be dropped from the rolls. (PTI) The draft roll now lists 125.5 million voters, down from 154.4 million voters in the roll published on October 27, 2025, after the special summary revision – a shrinking of 18.7% – said chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa. This number is lower than the size of the electorate in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls in the state, and the 2017 and 2022 assembly polls. Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Balrampur, Kanpur Nagar, and Meerut districts saw the highest deletions as a share of electors as on October 27. These districts saw 30%, 28.8%, …

Govt snooping on me, tapping my phones, alleges Rajasthan cabinet minister Kirodi Lal Meena | India News

Govt snooping on me, tapping my phones, alleges Rajasthan cabinet minister Kirodi Lal Meena | India News

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BJP leader Kirodi Lal Meena has accused the Rajasthan government, in which he is a Cabinet minister, of snooping on him and tapping his phones. In an undated video from Amagarh temple in Jaipur, the minister is heard saying, “I was hoping that things would change and that when we come to power, we will crack down on the corrupt. The issues on which I protested against the previous (Congress) government, and because of which you supported us and we formed the government, work was not done on those issues (under the current BJP government).” He said he flagged to the current government issues related to corruption, including the 2021 sub-inspector exam paper leak. Story continues below this ad “Maine jab kaha ke woh pareeksha radd karo, toh sarkar ne meri baat nahi maani. Ulta sarkar ki taraf se – jaisa pichle raj main hua karta tha – chappe chappe par mere liye CID lagai jaati hai aur mera telephone bhi record kiya jaata hai. Lekin main koi bura kaam karta nahi, isliye main darta …

Congress continues to trail in direct fights | Latest News India

Congress continues to trail in direct fights | Latest News India

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The Congress’ defeat in Haryana –– and performance in Jammu & Kashmir where its alliance with the National Conference is set to form the government –– highlighted the principal Opposition party’s difficulties in, one, defeating the BJP in direct contests in northern India, and two, faring well without the support of allies. Congress supports at a rally in Anantnag. (HT Photo) In Haryana, it won 37 seats in the 90-member assembly, losing an election, everyone, including its rivals, expected it to win comfortably. And in J&K, it won only six of the 39-seats it contested, and will be in power thanks to the stellar showing of its ally. Tuesday may well be remembered as the day the party lost much of the momentum it gained after its performance in the Lok Sabha elections. Difficulty in taking on the BJP in north India For the past decade, the Congress’s key electoral goal has been to improve its position and strike rate in north Indian states where is it in direct contest with the BJP. Last year, …

Today in Politics: Maharashtra elections soon, PM Modi to announce projects | Political Pulse News

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The Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir polls may be wrapping up soon, but the Maharashtra and Jharkhand elections are just around the corner. On Saturday, chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar addressed a press conference in Mumbai after reviewing poll preparedness for the Maharashtra Assembly elections. The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly’s term ends on November 26. Kumar spoke of voter apathy in urban areas and singled out areas like Colaba and Kalyan in and around Mumbai which recorded “among the lowest” voter turnout in the Lok Sabha polls held this year. On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch projects worth more than Rs 11,200 crore for Maharashtra through video-conferencing, a government press release notes. The projects include the inauguration of a Pune Metro section, the Solapur airport, and the development of the Bidkin Industrial Area in the Marathwada region. In 2019, the BJP-(combined) Shiv Sena alliance together won 161 of the 288 seats in the state Assembly. The alliance seemed poised to be in control, until it was not. A one-month deadlock occurred amid an intensifying …

Society doesn’t like anybody breaking their own family; have realised my mistake: Ajit Pawar | Latest News India

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Gadchiroli, Noting that society doesn’t like rifts in families, NCP leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said he had already admitted his mistake, an apparent reference to the electoral contest between his wife Sunetra and cousin Supriya Sule in recent Lok Sabha polls. Society doesn’t like anybody breaking their own family; have realised my mistake: Ajit Pawar Notably, this is the second time in less than a month that Pawar publicly admitted that he had made a mistake by fielding his wife against Sule and noted politics shouldn’t enter the home. The “admission” of mistake came against the backdrop of poor performance by the NCP, one of the constituents of the Mahayuti alliance, in its maiden general elections after the split in the undivided party. Addressing the Jansamman rally organised by NCP in Gadchiroli city on Friday, Pawar tried to discourage party leader and state minister Dharmarao Baba Aatram’s daughter Bhagyashri from crossing over to the Sharad Pawar-led NCP . Speculation is going around about a potential contest between Bhagyashri and her father …

94 seats see dip in vote count from 2019; overall turnout down by 1.5 pc points | Political Pulse News

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The Lok Sabha elections so far have seen a 1.55 percentage-point decrease in turnout compared to 2019, with 65% of the constituencies seeing a dip in turnout in percentage points and 20% of them witnessing a decrease in absolute numbers of voters as well. The six phases of polling so far have recorded an overall turnout of 65.63% – 1.55 percentage points down from 67.18% in the same seats in 2019, according to Election Commission data released Tuesday. While polling is complete in 485 seats out of the total 543 – the last phase is June 1 – the overall turnout figures for six phases do not include 14 seats of Assam and 5 of Jammu & Kashmir, where delimitation has changed boundaries since the last election. As many as 94 of the 466 seats saw a decrease in the absolute number of voters this time compared to 2019. Nagaland had the highest decrease in the number of voters (over 2.41 lakh). Mathura, Sidhi, Khajuraho, Pathanamithitta, Baghpat (UP) and Jabalpur (MP) saw a decrease of …

Women Voters Outnumber Men By 3 Per Cent In Phase 6 Of Lok Sabha Polls

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In the fifth phase too, more women had turned up at polling stations as compared to men. New Delhi: Female voters outnumbered male voters for the second consecutive time in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections by 3 per cent, according to data released by the Election Commission on Tuesday. In the fifth phase too, more women had turned up at polling stations as compared to men. Voting for 58 parliamentary constituencies was held in the sixth phase of elections on May 25. According to the EC, 61.95 per cent of the eligible male voters and 64.95 per cent of the eligible female voters cast ballot in the sixth phase. In Bihar, 62.95 per cent women voted as against 51.95 per cent men. In Jharkhand, 65.94 per cent women voted and 64.87 per cent men. Uttar Pradesh saw 57.12 per cent women and 51.31 per cent men cast ballot. In West Bengal, women’s turnout stood at 83.83 per cent and men’s at 81.62 per cent. In Odisha, women’s turnout (74.86 per cent) was only …

‘Agenda of 4-5 families’: PM Narendra Modi’s attack on Opposition over Article 370 in J-K | Latest News India

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Article 370 was the “agenda of 4-5 families” in Jammu and Kashmir, taking a veiled jibe at the Opposition. In an interview with news agency ANI, PM Narendra Modi talked about the abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir, and its impact on the union territory. PM Narendra Modi (ANI) Modi that the Article 370 was never an agenda for the people of Jammu and Kashmir or the people of the country. He added that the wall of Article 370 was built in Kashmir for the benefit of just 4-5 families. Unlock exclusive access to the latest news on India’s general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! Download Now! “Article 370 was the agenda of only 4-5 families, it was neither the agenda of the people of Kashmir nor the agenda of the people of the country. For their benefit, they had built such a wall of 370 and used to say that if 370 is removed, there will be a fire,” Modi said in theinterview. “Today, …

Hearing In Defamation Case Against Rahul Gandhi In UP On June 7

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Rahul Gandhi: A defamation complaint against Congress MP was filed by a BJP leader Sultanpur: An MP-MLA court here has fixed a June 7 hearing in the 2018 defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his alleged objectionable remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The defamation complaint against Mr Gandhi was filed by BJP leader Vijay Mishra. Mr Gandhi’s lawyer Kashi Prasad Shukla gave an application in the court, saying the Congress leader was busy campaigning for Lok Sabha polls and needed time to appear before the court. Judge Shubham Verma fixed June 7 as the next date of hearing. Plaintiff’s lawyer Santosh Kumar Pandey told the court that Mr Gandhi is running away from the court. The court had issued a warrant against Mr Gandhi in December last. Subsequently, the Congress leader had halted his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Amethi on February 20 and appeared in court which granted him bail. The complaint was filed here on August 4, 2018, against Mr Gandhi for his alleged objectionable comments against Mr Shah …

Amit Shah interview: ‘The most important explanation of Mandate 2024 will be the people’s belief that the road the country is on is the right one’ | Political Pulse News

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Hours after Phase 6 of the Lok Sabha polls closed Saturday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to Neerja Chowdhury and Raj Kamal Jha at his Krishna Menon Marg residence in New Delhi. Edited excerpts: Amit Shah: To form the government, we already have the numbers from the first five phases. Above 272? Amit Shah: We are somewhere between 300 and 310… this is minus the last phase… We are in a comfortable position. This time, we went to the people with 10 years of track record and 25 years of a powerfully positive agenda. In the beginning, there was a consensus that this is a boring election, a done deal. Over the last month, it seems there is a hawa from the Opposition’s side too… The Opposition is putting up a spirited fight. We will know about that once the verdict comes in. How is the Amit Shah campaign in 2024 different from the Amit Shah campaign in 2019? Shah: I have travelled across India. Barring Ladakh, I have been in every state, every …