An electoral roll is not just a register. It establishes who should be allowed to vote, which is why the growing controversy around the SIR of electoral rolls is worth paying attention to, despite its being part of the current political conflict. The controversy currently underway pits three interests against each other: the duty of ...

It has introduced a new feature into its software designed to fish out so-called “ghost voters” and improve the accuracy of electoral rolls in response to Trinamool Congress (TMC) allegations about the existence of fake voters. “With this new upgrade, Electoral Registration Officers can find cases where multiple voter names are related to a single ...

The Congress party that secured a decent vote share was shocked as the party lost the 2024 Haryana assembly elections. Some of the strategic errors, changing voter base, and the transformation of the contest into a more bipolar form were the causes of its demise. Now let us look at the causes of this electoral ...

The Election Commission (EC) has issued a directive to the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) regarding the immediate cessation of ‘Viksit Bharat’ messages on WhatsApp. Here’s a detailed analysis of the situation: The EC has received complaints regarding the continued delivery of ‘Viksit Bharat’ messages to citizens’ phones, despite the Model Code of Conduct ...

National Voters’ Day is celebrated on January 25 every year in India. This year marks its 14th edition. It was first celebrated in 2011 to encourage young people to enroll as voters.  The Election Commission launches efforts annually to enroll new voters who turn 18 by January 1, providing them voter ID cards on January ...

While the Bihar Assembly polls are only a month away, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)’s cultural wing has launched a poster of the late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Despite the fact that the party asserted that Rajput’s death isn’t a matter for elections, yet its cultural wing is using this for campaigning in the ...