Election Commission  

The Election Commission had declared opposition alliance candidate Ibrahim Mohamed Solih the winner of the September 23 election against President Yameen Abdul Gayoom

To encourage voters to exercise their franchise, in view of the low turnout during the first phase of polling, the Election Commission has extended the voting period from 9 to 10 hours

The EVM VVPAT inventory is securely managed through a robust tracking system to track all operations on machine movement, first level checks, randomisation and poll day defects.

Here is why Election Commission’s announcement of Assembly election dates has put the Congress in a big fix

The Election Commission today announced the dates of polls to the Assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram. With this announcement, the four state governments will be debarred from certain activities. Here are the details.

Chief election commissioner OP Rawat said that the model code of conduct will be effective from Saturday in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Mizoram as well as Telangana

All major parties have already started making aggressive pitches ahead of the state elections. BJP president Amit Shah and Congress president Rahul Gandhi are in Madhya Pradesh for election campaign
 

Telangana's caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had declared Bathukamma as the state festival after the formation of the state in 2014, and he started distributing sarees to poor women from 2017, during the festival.