The selection and appointment mechanism of India’s top poll panel has once again landed under judicial scrutiny before the Supreme Court of India. A writ petition filed under Article 32 of the Constitution by advocate Surya Payala has directly challenged the validity of the Central Government’s notifications dated March 14, …
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In a significant retreat amid mounting institutional friction and political scrutiny, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has removed a contentious Special Intensive Revision (SIR) declaration from its online voter registration portal, ECINET. The digital modification—inserted directly into statutory Form 6 used for new voter enrollment—was dropped for states where …
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Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar faces one of the sharpest political and institutional storms to hit Nirvachan Sadan in decades. A united opposition front led by the INDIA bloc has mounted a coordinated, two-pronged offensive against the head of the Election Commission of India (ECI), taking the battle from …
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