Women Reservation Bill Passed In Lok Sabha
News | September 20, 2023 23:38 ISTThe historic Women's Reservation Bill -- Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam -- to provide 33 per cent quota in Lok Sabha and state assemblies has been passed in Lok Sabha.
The historic Women's Reservation Bill -- Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam -- to provide 33 per cent quota in Lok Sabha and state assemblies has been passed in Lok Sabha.
The results of bypolls in 6 states will reflect the mood of voters ahead of the crucial Lok Sabha elections 2024 and assembly elections in five states.
West Bengal Panchayat Election HIGHLIGHTS: Violence rocked Bengal's rural polls as voting ended on Saturday leaving 12 people dead, ballot boxes vandalized and bombs thrown at rivals in a number of villages.
UP Municipal Election: The voting took place in 38 districts including Gautam Buddha Nagar, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Shahjahanpur, Bareilly, Aligarh, Kanpur and Ayodhya today.
Voting took place in a peaceful atmosphere in Karnataka today….People reached polling booths in large numbers since morning…More than 65 percent polling was done in Karnataka by 5 pm.
Voting is over for Karnataka Election. Voting completed for 224 seats. The contest is tough between BJP and Congress. See which are the five high-profile seats in the state on which there is a tough fight. The fate of veteran leaders is at stake.
Karnataka Elections 2023: The southern state witnessed nearly 65.69 per cent turnout on Wednesday.
Karnataka elections 2023: Electorate will vote to decide as to who will run the state government for the next 5 years. In the last few elections, Karnataka did not vote for the ruling party, this time is trying hard to break the jinx.
Delhi HC on compulsory voting: The court said that casting a vote is a matter of choice and right and the judiciary cannot pass such directions.
Nagaland elections 2023: Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) contested the election in alliance with the BJP on 40:20 seats sharing basis. The Congress is eyeing a revival as Nagaland is the only state in India to have no Opposition in the state assembly.
Tripura election 2023 HIGHLIGHTS: Congress and Left made a rare alliance to fight the ruling BJP. TMC and aother regional parties also trying their electoral luck in the state.
The EC, on December 29, said it developed a model of a remote electronic voting machine for domestic migrant voters to increase voter participation in the polling process.
Remote voting machine by Election Commission: The poll panel has also floated a concept note on remote voting and sought the views of political parties on the legal, administrative and technical challenges in implementing it, according to a statement.
Himachal Pradesh election: Politicians left no stone unturned to woo voters. Now, it's the electorate's turn. 55 lakh voters will decide the fate of 412 candidates.
SP MLA Iqbal Mehmood on vote for BJP: He also accused All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen led by Asaduddin Owaisi the "B team" of Bharatiya Janata Party.
According to the State Election Commission (SEC), a total of 13,148 polling booths have been set up for the first phase of civic polls.
In the 2019 polls, AAP contested 46 of the 90-member Assembly but faced a humiliating defeat with a vote share of just 0.48 per cent.
Assembly spokeswoman Paulina Kubiak said on Thursday that Czech Republic was the only candidate for the seat on the 47-member Human Rights Council.
Some political parties from the state had earlier expressed concerns over pre-poll violence and had urged the Election Commission to deploy adequate security forces during the poll process.
The bill, which is part of a broader Democratic effort to enact a sweeping overhaul of elections, was approved on a 219-212 vote, with no Republican support.
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