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  Quraishi demits office as CEC

  India | June 10, 2012 22:46 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 10: Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi today demitted office at the end of his six-year tenure.At a simple function at the Commission headquarters here he signed his relinquishing order, paving the

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  V S Sampath is the new Chief Election Commissioner

  India | June 06, 2012 21:35 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 6: Election Commissioner V S Sampath was today appointed the new Chief Election Commissioner who will preside over the next Lok Sabha general elections in 2014.62-year-old Sampath will take over as CEC

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  Exit Polls Are Best For Entertainment Channels, Says CEC Quraishi

  India | March 05, 2012 16:57 IST

  New Delhi, March 4: Amid a flurry of exit polls predicting the outcome of Assembly elections ahead of the March 6 results, Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi oon Sunday said such surveys should at best

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  Don't Need More Powers, Only Fine-Tuning Of Law, Says CEC

  India | March 04, 2012 18:39 IST

  New Delhi, March 4: The Mode Code of Conduct, which came under attack recently from ministers in trouble and from government which hurriedly dropped a controversial move to give it a statutory backing, needs to

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  CEC Heaps Praise On Politicians

  India | February 22, 2012 8:55 IST

  Gurgaon, Feb 22: “You love democracy and hate politicians, this is not possible”—quipped Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi on Tuesday as he heaped praised on the country's political leaders, noting that because of their

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  CEC Complains To PM Against Law Minister Khurshid

  India | January 14, 2012 14:49 IST

  New Delhi, Jan 13: Union  Law Minister Salman Khurshid has ruffled feathers in the Election Commission by stating that his ministry had administrative control over the poll body, prompting its chief S Y Quraishi to

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  CEC Seeks Statute Protection For ECs

  India | January 01, 2012 11:34 IST

  New Delhi, Jan 1: After the episode involving the demand over his predecessor's removal, Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi feels there is need for a constitutional amendment to give protection to the Election Commissioners

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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

  National | 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

  National | 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