Election Commission of India

October 26, 2026 10:56 PM

ECI files affidavit in Supreme Court, says all SIR orders issued between 2025-26 were “unanimous”

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court, stating that all three Special Intensive Revision (SIR) orders issued across 2025 and 2026 were “unanimous decisions” passed with the collective consensus of the full Commission. In a counter-affidavit filed before the apex court in response to petitions challenging the administrative functioning and decision-making of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), the poll monitoring body asserted that th...

October 9, 2026 11:23 PM

Assam: BJP’s Devasish Sharma wins Nagaon LS bypoll by 1,42,224 votes

The BJP wrested the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat from the Congress on Friday, with party candidate Devasish Sharma defeating his nearest rival AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal by 1,42,224 votes in the bypoll, the Election Commission said. Sharma, a former IAS officer, polled 7,14,349 votes, while Ajmal, the Binnakandi legislator, bagged 5,72,125 votes. Former Congress MLA Sibamoni Bora finished a distant third with 1,29,492 votes, according to data available on the EC website. The bye-election to the Naga...

October 9, 2026 8:27 PM

PM Modi Says By-Election Results Reflect People’s Deep-Rooted Connect with BJP-NDA’s Good Governance Agenda

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday thanked voters for their support following the bypoll results in Assam, West Bengal and Puducherry, and applauded the hard work of party workers, saying the results once again demonstrated the people’s deep-rooted connect with the good governance agenda of the BJP-NDA. PM Modi took to X and posted, “Gratitude to the people for their continuous blessings! The Lok Sabha result of Nagaon (Assam) and Assembly results of Nandigram as well as Rejinagar (Wes...

October 9, 2026 9:48 PM

BJP Sweeps Nandigram, Rejinagar in West Bengal Bypolls

The BJP on Friday swept the West Bengal assembly bypolls, trouncing its rivals by a record margin in politically significant Nandigram and scoring a victory in Rejinagar, consolidating its position barely five months after ending the TMC’s 15-year rule in the state. In Nandigram, BJP candidate Hasirani Rath, mother of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s slain personal assistant Chandranath Rath, defeated Congress nominee Milan Pradhan by a record margin of 1,22,753 votes, according to the Ele...

October 9, 2026 5:23 PM

BJP wins Nandigram assembly by-election by record margin of over 1.22 lakh votes

BJP’s Nandigram assembly by-election candidate Hasirani Rath trounced her nearest rival, Milan Pradhan of the Congress, by a record margin of 1,22,753 votes, as the EC declared the results on Friday. Rath, mother of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s slain personal assistant Chandranath Rath, polled 1,64,427 votes in the politically significant constituency in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district against Pradhan’s 41,674. All other candidates, including those of the Left Front, ISF, a...

October 9, 2026 4:33 PM

Assam: BJP’s Devasish Sharma achieves unassailable lead of 1,46,180 votes in Nagaon LS bypoll

BJP candidate Devasish Sharma achieved an unassailable lead of 1,46,180 votes over his nearest rival, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal, as counting of votes polled in the by-election to the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat in Assam was underway on Friday, according to the Election Commission. Sharma, a former IAS officer, polled 5,28,938 votes, while Ajmal secured 3,82,758 votes and Congress nominee Sibamoni Bora was a distant third with 95,881, the EC said on its website. The BJP candidate has established co...

September 23, 2026 6:12 PM

All ECI decisions, including SIR, taken unanimously by full Commission: ECI

The Election Commission of India has said that all decisions taken by it, including the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, are the outcome of unanimous decisions of the full Commission. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the ECI said it is a multi-member constitutional body functioning under Article 324 of the Constitution, statutory rules and established institutional conventions. It said written notes, observations, technical suggestions and internal checks and balances are...

September 23, 2026 3:30 PM

हम संवैधानिक दायरे में कर रहे हैं काम, सर्वसम्मति से हो रहे सभी फैसले : चुनाव आयोग

भारत निर्वाचन आयोग ने आज बुधवार को प्रेस नोट जारी कर अपना पक्ष रखा है। आयोग ने कहा है कि वह पूरी तरह से संवैधानिक जनादेश और वैधानिक नियमों के तहत काम कर रहा है। चुनाव आयोग ने अपने प्रेस नोट संख�...

September 14, 2026 8:36 PM

CEC Gyanesh Kumar to meet Bhutan King, PM during three-day visit

Chief Election Commissioner of India Gyanesh Kumar has begun a three-day visit to the Kingdom of Bhutan from September 14 to 16, with electoral cooperation and institutional engagement between the two countries high on the agenda. During the visit, Gyanesh Kumar will meet His Majesty the King of Bhutan in Thimphu on Monday. A key engagement will be Bhutan’s National Voters’ Day celebration at the Jigme Singye Wangchuck School of Law in Paro on September 15, where the CEC will be the Chief ...

September 11, 2026 7:52 PM

Students of today are torchbearers of tomorrow’s democracy: CEC Gyanesh Kumar

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Friday described students as the “torchbearers of tomorrow’s democracy” and stressed the need to strengthen electoral literacy and democratic awareness among young citizens. Addressing the fifth regional conference on “Electoral Literacy Clubs and ECINET” organised by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Ahmedabad, Kumar said Electoral Literacy Clubs (ELCs) across the country would help strengthen the backbone of the world’s oldest a...