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  Govt For Ban On Candidates Facing Chargesheet 1 Yr Before Poll

  India | December 30, 2011 20:34 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 30: Government has floated a proposal to bar from elections candidates facing charge sheet for heinous offences one year before elections.  Disclosing this, Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi expressed the hope

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  Right to Reject An Interesting Possibility : Quraishi

  India | December 26, 2011 17:51 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 26: Team Anna's demand for incorporating Right to Reject a candidate in Parliament and assembly elections is an “interesting possibility”, feels Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi.He, however, finds that their plea

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  CEC Refuses To Change Uttarakhand Poll Date

  India | December 25, 2011 21:13 IST

  New Delhi, Dec 25: Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi today expressed inability to consider changing the poll date (Jan 30) in Uttarakhand as the political parties in the state have cited bad wintry weather conditions

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  Recall Issues Should Be Decided In Par, Not Jantar Mantar : CEC

  India | December 12, 2011 22:37 IST

  Shimla, Dec 12: Taking a jibe at Anna Hazare, Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi today said his demands like right to recall or reject elected representatives should be decided in Parliament and “not at

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  Right To Reject, Recall May Not Work In India : CEC

  India | October 16, 2011 14:44 IST

  New Delhi, Oct 16: Amid a campaign by Team Anna for polls reforms, the Election Commission has disfavoured any proposal to include the ‘Right to Reject' or ‘Right to Recall' clauses in election rules, saying

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  CEC Dismisses Charge Of Bias

  Politics | April 11, 2011 18:48 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 11: The Election Commission today dismissed the charge of bias in its actions and made it clear that steps for the conduct of fair and free polls are "not directed against anyone"."It

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  Tamil Nadu A challenging Case: CEC

  Politics | April 08, 2011 17:22 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 8: Calling Tamil Nadu a "challenging case", the Election Commission today said it cannot "close its eyes to rampant malpractices" there and rejected the charge levelled by DMK and PMK that it

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  Elections Biggest Source Of Corruption: CEC

  India | March 26, 2011 7:46 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 25: Noting that elections have become the biggest source of corruption, Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi today said the incidents of paid news were on the rise during polls. "Election has