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15Oct

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‘Showing trends at 8.05am or 8.10am on counting day is nonsense’: What CEC Rajiv Kumar said on failed exit poll predictions | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday questioned the practice of showing winning/losing trends 5 to 10 minutes after the official beginning of counting at 8am on election result days."Showing winning/losing trends at 8.05am or 8.10am, which is just five or ten minutes after start of counting at 8am is nonsense," CEC Rajiv Kumar said when asked about the fallout of failed exit poll predictions.The CEC went on to question if these "early" trends are made to justify the exit poll results. "The actual counting starts at 8.30am and the first trends are uploaded on EC website at 9.30am," the CEC said."A major distortion is being created due to Exit Polls and expectations set by it. This is a matter of deliberation and introspection for the Press, especially for electronic...

3Sep

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‘Ensure alliance votes are undivided’: Rahul Gandhi on contesting as INDIA bloc in Haryana polls

New Delhi: In the Congress’s Central Election Committee (CEC) held to discuss ticket allocation for the forthcoming Haryana Assembly elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi discussed about the possibilities of contesting elections as INDIA bloc, said sources. The meeting took place at the Congress Headquarters in New Delhi on Monday. According to sources, during the CEC meeting Rahul Gandhi asked about the possibilities of contesting elections as INDIA alliance and said that the party should make efforts to ensure that the votes of the alliance are undivided.Responding to Rahul Gandhi’s statement, former Haryana CM and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that they can only give 3-4 seats to AAP however they are demanding more than it, so it is difficult to form an alliance, said sou...

29Aug

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Haryana Polls: BJP Can Drop A Dozen MLAs For Assembly Election, Over 20 Young Faces Likely To B

Haryana Assembly Polls: The core commitee of Bharatiya Janata Party's Haryana unit conducted a meeting on Thursday ahead of the party's central election committee (CEC) meeting set to be held in the evening. According to sources, the state unit held discussions on all the 90 seats in view of the upcoming Haryana Assembly polls on October 1. A panel of three names has been prepared for each assembly seat, which will be presented at the CEC meeting only after which the final decision will be taken. The first candidate list is likely to be released by the party today or tomorrow (August 30). Sources told ABP News that the BJP might drop the names of two ministers and nearly a dozen sitting MLAs. However, it is also preparing to field over 20 young candidates. There is a possibility that the s...

26Aug

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BJP announces first list of 44 candidates for J-K assembly elections

Srinagar: The Bhartiya Janata Party on Monday announced the first list of 44 candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. BJP has fielded Syed Wazahat from Anantnag, Kuldeep Raj Dubey from Reasi, and Gajay Singh Rana from Doda. Arshid Bhat will contest from Rajpora and Sushri Shagun Parihar from Kishtwar. Pawan Gupta to contest from Udhampur West, Dr. Devinder Kumar Maniyal to contest from Ramgarh (SC), and Mohan Lal Bhagat to contest from Akhnoor. Rohit Dubey to contest from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi, and Chowdhary Abdul Ghani to contest from Poonch Haveli. The list of candidates was released after the meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party Central Election Committee under the chairmanship of JP Nadda. PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah were also present at the meeting. ...