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Media

In a gross violation of Election Commission rules, IANS publishes a comprehensive Exit Poll for 2019 Lok Sabha elections

OpIndia Staff - 14 May, 2019

Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), in a gross violation of the Model Code of Conduct rules, published a comprehensive Exit Poll on 12th May for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Law

Supreme Court rejects plea seeking to reschedule poll timings for 7th phase of Lok Sabha elections in Ramzan

OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2019

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court had asked the EC to see whether the polls could be commenced at 5 am in view of Ramzan and to pass the necessary order.

News Reports

BJP approaches EC, files complaint against Kamal Haasan for terming Godse as ‘independent India’s first terrorist who was a Hindu’

OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2019

BJP has filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India against Kamal Haasan for his 'Hindu terrorist' remark on Nathuram Godse.

Media

Pro-AAP fake news peddler blasts EC for removing his video promoting a fake news

OpIndia Staff - 13 May, 2019

Janta Ka Reporter and its editor Rifat Jawaid have not only been caught peddling fake news about EVMs, again, but have lashed out at the Election Commission and Twitter for removing his video peddling fake news about EVMs.

Law

Sad that after 60-70 years after Independence, we are still trying to improve the system: SC on cash seized during elections

OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2019

According to the data collected by the Election Commission, Rs 303 crore of unaccounted cash was seized during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Politics

10 outlandish and asinine things that Rahul Gandhi said in his interview to NDTV’s Ravish Kumar

OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2019

Ravish Kumar interviews Rahul Gandhi. As expected, the complexity and depth of the discussion will the stuff of legends.

Politics

After ‘heat of campaigning’ Rahul Gandhi uses ‘free flow of political speech’ to defend his lie about tribal law

OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2019

Rahul Gandhi claims before the Election Commission that he did not violate the poll code in his speech in Shahdol where he had claimed that Modi government has made a law where they can shoot down tribals.

Politics

FIR for MCC violation against temple priest and BJP candidate for offering saffron and green cloth at Khajrana Ganesh Temple

OpIndia Staff - 11 May, 2019

Indore police have lodged an FIR against BJP MP candidate Shankar Lalwani and the priest of Khajrana Ganesh temple alleging that the offering of saffron and green cloth and lotus flowers was a violation of the MCC.

News Reports