The Chhattisgarh High Court refused to quash a criminal case against 11 activists accused of calling the word "Hindu" an abuse during a 2024 rally. The court ruled that free speech defenses and criminal intent must be evaluated during a full trial.
Despite heavy security deployment, the day was marred by political clashes, stone-pelting, and booth disputes in Amritsar, Samana, and Barnala, leaving several injured.
After former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel alleged that the numbers of many Electronic Voting Machines in his constituency, Rajnandgaon, have changed, the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of the state clarified in a series of posts on 'X' that the "mismatch" in EVMs number shared with Baghel is not based on facts.
Nitasha Kaul conjectured a make-believe story to lend credence to the conspiracy theory mainstreamed by Congress party about the Electronic Voting Machines.
“Likes” section of the official X handle of Telangana’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has sparked outrage as the Telangana CEO had liked posts favouring the return of the ballot paper.
Several Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, have already threatened violence linked with the electoral outcomes of the Congress party. Such threats are an assault on the greatest positive Indian democracy has experienced over the past seven-and-a-half decades: a smooth transition of power.
It is extremely crucial to put complete information in the public domain to help voters make up their minds on the authenticity of allegations leveled against EVMs whenever opposition parties lose an election.