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Assembly Election: Tripura to vote on February 16, Meghalaya, Nagaland on February 27, results on March 2

The Election Commission on Wednesday announced the dates for the Legislative Assemblies of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland. Tripura will go to polls on February 16. Voting will be held in Meghalaya and Nagaland on February 27.

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Chief Election Commissioner Rajeev Kumar

The Election Commission on Wednesday announced the dates for the Legislative Assemblies of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland. Tripura will go to polls on February 16. Voting will be held in Meghalaya and Nagaland on February 27. The results of all the states will be announced on March 2. An interesting feature of these elections is that the majority mark in all the three states is 31.

Chief Election Commissioner Rajeev Kumar said that the participation of women voters is high in all the three states and there is not much electoral violence here. We are committed to fair elections here.

Date of nominations:-

Tripura – January 21 to January 30

Meghalaya & Nagaland – January 31 to February 7

Last date for withdrawal of nominations:-

Tripura – February 2,

Meghalaya & Nagaland – February 10

Highlights on elections in these 3 states:-

• 9,125 polling stations have been set up in all the three states. In rural areas, 82 per cent more polling stations have been set up as compared to 2018. Women staffers will handle 376 polling stations in all the three states.

• There are 62.8 lakh voters in the three states. Of these, there are 31.47 lakh women voters and 97 thousand voters above the age of 80 years. There are 1.76 lakh first time voters.

Glance at seats in these 3 states

Meghalaya Legislative Assembly: Seats- 60, Majority- 31

Elections were held on 59 seats in Meghalaya in 2018. The Congress had won the maximum 21 seats. BJP could get only 2 seats here. The National People’s Party (NPEP) got 19 seats. It formed the government together with PDF and HSPDP and formed the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA).

The parties here are in election mode for the last three months. Congress has already released the list of 40 and NPP 58 candidates.

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Tripura Legislative Assembly: Seats- 60, Majority- 31

Elections were held on 59 seats in the state in 2018. BJP emerged as the single largest party and won 35 seats. The BJP had demolished the 25-year-old stronghold of the Left here. Earlier Biplab Dev was made the CM, but in May 2022 Manik Saha was made the Chief Minister.

CPM and Congress have joined hands to stop BJP in the upcoming elections. Mamta Banerjee’s TMC can also give competition to BJP.

Nagaland Legislative Assembly: Seats-60, Majority-31

Nagaland is governed by the National Democratic Progressive Party. Neiphiu Rio is the CM. NDPP came into existence in 2017. The NDPP then won 18 seats and the BJP 12. The two parties had forged an alliance before the elections. The government consists of NDPP, BJP NPP and JDU.

Last year, both the parties had said in a joint statement that the NDPP would contest 40 seats and the BJP together on 20 seats.

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Smriti Irani slams West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee over Bengal Ram Navami violence, says gave clean chit to accused

Union Minister Smriti Irani said that despite of the appeal of protection by the people taking out the Ram Navami procession, the administration failed to provide protection.

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Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the widespread violence in the state during Ram Navami. Irani accused the West Bengal CM of giving clean chit to the accused who disrupted the Ram Navami celebrations in the state.

Irani in her statement said that the organisers of the Ram Navami procession asked for permission for the procession to happen. The Union Minister of Child and Woman development further said that a request was also sought for protection as a 100-meter stretch was likely to be attacked by stone pelting.

Union Minister Smriti Irani said that despite of the appeal of protection by the people taking out the Ram Navami procession, the administration failed to provide protection. Irani further said and claimed that the West Bengal Government protected those who took law into their own hands, as well as, the ones who attacked the procession by pelting stones.

She further lambasted the Chief Minister of West Bengal and slammed her for targeting the ones who took out the procession during Ram Navami instead of the real culprits. The Union Minister, in her scathing attack on the West Bengal Government, also accused WB CM of giving a clean chit to the real culprits

Irani in her statement also added and said that this is not the first time where people of the Hindu community were attacked and raked up previous accounts of people getting attacked last year during Lakshmi Puja.

BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar also wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah seeking an intervention of Central forces to stop the repression in Howrah. The BJP MP has sought NIA’s probe into the cause of the riot.

Parts of West Bengal saw violence on the occasion of Ram Navami. Following the violence, the West Bengal government gave the investigation over to Criminal Investigation Department (CID). As per the reports, the inspector General of CID, Sunil Choudhury has initiated the investigation into the case.

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Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot dares Amit Shah over pressure to frame Modi allegations, dares him to name officers involved

CM Ashok Gehlot’s challenge to Union Home Minister Amit Shah comes after he spoke to the media in a Media conclave and leveled that the CBI had pressured him to frame the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in a fake encounter case.

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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has hit back at the allegations leveled by Home Minister Amit Shah and challenged him to name the CBI officials involved in pressuring him to frame his party colleague and then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in a fake encounter case.

Gehlot, while speaking to the media, said that if Delhi Police can ask for the details of the alleged sexual assault victims in Jammu and Kashmir from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, then the police can do the same and ask for the names of the CBI officers who allegedly pressurized Shah to frame Modi.

Gehlot spoke to the media and slammed the Police for reaching the house of Rahul Gandhi, following the notice, even though the Congress leader had said that he will respond to the notice. Rajasthan CM also asked if Delhi Police will treat Amit Shah’s claims the same way it did to Rahul Gandhi’s claims and question Home Minister.

Rajasthan CM was referring to the questioning done by Delhi police on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after he claimed that during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, he claimed to have met women who were allegedly still getting sexually assaulted in the Union Territory. Following the claims by the Congress leader and more than a month after the conclusion of Bharat Jodo Yatra, Delhi police served notice to the Congress leader and arrived at his residence to question him on it.

CM Ashok Gehlot’s challenge to Union Home Minister Amit Shah comes after he spoke to the media in a Media conclave and leveled that the CBI had pressured him to frame the then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi in a fake encounter case. At the time, UPA was in power, highlighted the home minister.

Home Minister Amit Shah’s claims came as a counter to the Opposition that has alleged misuse of central agencies against the Opposition Parties for political benefits and dubbed it to be vendetta politics.

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Karnataka High Court disqualifies JD(S) MLA for electoral malpractice

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday disqualified JD(S) MLA D C Gowrishankar Swamy for electoral malpractice, however, the Tumakuru Rural constituency legislator’s suspension was kept in suspension for one month to allow Swamy to file an appeal in the Supreme Court.

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JD(S) MLA D C Gowrishankar Swamy

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday disqualified JD(S) MLA D C Gowrishankar Swamy for electoral malpractice, however, the Tumakuru Rural constituency legislator’s suspension was kept in suspension for one month to allow Swamy to file an appeal in the Supreme Court.

Swamy was disqualified under Section 101 of the The Representation of the People Act by a single-judge bench of the Karnataka High Court which was delivering a verdict on a petition filed by BJP leader B Suresh Gowda, five years ago, accusing the JD(S) legislator of distributing fake insurance bonds to voters during the 2018 Karnataka Assembly election.

Justice S Sunil Dutt Yadav dictated the orders on Thursday from the Kalaburagi bench of the Karnataka High Court. Justice Yadav had earlier reserved the judgment after completion of arguments on February 17.

Advocate Hemanth Raj, who represented Swamy, sought the suspension of the order as per Section 116(B) of the Act to allow him to file an appeal before the Supreme Court, as elections to the Karnataka Assembly had already been announced.

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Advocate Raj told the court that Swamy was planning to contest the upcoming polls and hence must be given time for an appeal. Gowda’s counsel opposed the request, but was turned down by the High Court, who suspended Swamy’s suspension, allowing the lawmaker time to file an appeal in the Supreme Court.

The other accused in the case—Balanetraiah, Arehalli Manjunath, Krishnegowda, Renukamma and Sunanda—were also convicted of election malpractices, however, the suspension of the order was only in respect of Swamy and not the other accused.

In his petition, BJP’s B Suresh Gowda, had claimed that Swamy and his accomplices violated Section 123 of The Representation People Act by allegedly distributed fake insurance bonds to 32,000 adults and 16,000 minors, after the Model Code of Conduct came into force on March 27, 2018.

Gowda, who lost the last election to Swamy, had approached the high court with his plea in July 2018.

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