Priyanka Gandhi urges voters to make Lok Sabha elections about real issues

Elections:An aggregate of 11 ladies hopefuls are in the quarrel for the May 12 Lok Sabha surveys in Haryana, which in the 53 years of its reality has chosen just five ladies parliamentarians.

In the 2014 general races, not by any means a solitary lady hopeful could figure out how to win in the state known for its skewed sex proportion, while six out ten parliamentary voting demographics here have never chosen a lady MP.

Albeit, no ladies competitors challenging freely in the state have ever constructed it to the lower place of parliament, this time, seven of the 11 female applicants are independents.

Chandravati, a previous Janta Party pioneer turned into the first historically speaking lady MP from the state in 1977 when she vanquished political stalwart Chaudhary Bansi Lal from Bhiwani voting demographic.

She later joined the Congress and furthermore filled in as the Governor of Puducherry in 1990.

Of the 151 MPs chose from the state up until now (counting when it was a piece of Punjab), ladies were chosen just multiple times.

Congress’ Kumari Selja, a Rajya Sabha MP, is the main ladies to have been chosen to Lok Sabha thrice, twice from Ambala and once from Sirsa.

Selja who is challenging the races this time from Ambala, told PTI, “The state has advanced a great deal with regards to ladies however a ton should be finished. We need an ever increasing number of ladies pioneers to address the issues.”

Shruti Chaudhary, terrific girl of previous Chief Minister, Chaudhary Bansi Lal, who was chosen as a MP in 2009 general decisions from Bhiwani-Mahendargarh voting demographic, is additionally in the quarrel this time.

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Election Commission bars Sidhu for 72 hours for ‘violating’ poll conduct

The ban comes into force from 10 am on Tuesday

Elections: The Election Commission Monday rebuffed Congress pioneer Navjot Singh Sidhu and banished him from battling for 72 hours for supposed mutual comments amid a decision rally in Bihar.

The restriction comes into power from 10 am on Tuesday.

Tending to a decision rally in Katihar on April 16, the cricketer-turned-government official had stirred a debate when he encouraged Muslim voters to cast a ballot en alliance and thrashing Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

At the time Sidhu was campaigning in help of veteran Congress pioneer and previous association serve Tariq Anwar.

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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala still sees an NDA government, but advises caution

He was speaking on a day the stock market hit its highest ever levels

Elections:Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, one of India’s greatest securities exchange financial specialists, instructed alert ahead with respect to Lok Sabha decisions even as he said that the decision government is probably going to returned to control.

He was talking on multi day when the market hit new highs with barely a month to go before race results. He was a piece of a board exchange denoting the dispatch of the most recent participant in the common store industry – the Sun Pharmaceutical Industries copromoter Sudhir Valia-upheld ITI Mutual Fund. Others on the board were Ramesh Damani, part, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE); Nimesh Shah, Managing Director and CEO at ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company; and George Heber Joseph, CEO and boss venture officer at ITI Mutual Fund.

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Both the benchmark lists shut at unequaled highs on Tuesday – the S&P BSE Sensex shut down at 39,275.64 while the National Stock Exchange’s Nifty 50 finished at 11,787.15.

“Today is another high in the market yet every one of the bars are vacant!” said Jhunjhunwala, proposing that the market has been driven higher by a couple of stocks, instead of seeing an expansive based rally. Nonetheless, he stayed bullish on desires for a pickup in the capex cycle and said that the period of the terrible advance emergency has passed.

Jhunjunwala said he expects the decision National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to return to control at the Center. He included that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may not win a solitary gathering larger part in the Lok Sabha. Be that as it may, he anticipates that the decision gathering should be a prevailing accomplice in the new government.

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Plea in SC for ensuring safety of EVMs after Lok Sabha elections

The plea said that as alleged it was possible to tamper with the EVMs in broad daylight during post poll situations

Elections:A request in the Supreme Court on Tuesday looked for bearing to the Election Commission to guarantee wellbeing and security of electronic casting a ballot machines (EVMs) after Lok Sabha surveys.

The request, documented by M Srinivasan, President of Tamil Nadu Annal Ambedkar Law Association, has alluded to news gives an account of anxieties of some resistance groups that EVMs might be altered even after the surveys.

The request, which may come in the mood for hearing one week from now, said that the Chief Election Commissioner be coordinated to guarantee that EVMs are not messed with amid the post surveys period.

“The main statutory and authoritative check accessible to ensure and save the trust in the EVMs was in the hands of Election Commission of India yet what is the ground the truth is the exceptionally unbiased working of Election Commission of India is in question,” it said.

The request said that as supposed it was conceivable to mess with the EVMs without trying to hide amid post survey circumstances since it was a dull period in which the machines have next to no entrance to external world but to a constrained managerial functionaries.

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Lok Sabha polls in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore cancelled after cash recovery

Tamil Nadu’s chief electoral officer Satyabrata Sahoo submitted the report related to the seizure of money

Elections:President Ram Nath Kovind gave his seal of endorsement to the Election Commission’s (EC’s) proposal to drop the Lok Sabha race at Vellore in Tamil Nadu. This was inferable from the seizure of unaccounted cash to the tune of Rs 11 crore from the place of DMK hopeful Kathir Anand, child of gathering treasurer Duraimurugan, alongside different premises.

Vellore should go to surveys in the second stage on Thursday. In the interim, the salary charge office started look tasks at DMK pioneer Kanimozhi’s home in Thoothukudi, asserted gathering specialists. Tamil Nadu’s boss discretionary officer Satyabrata Sahoo presented the report identified with the seizure of cash.

The DMK, in an announcement, descended intensely on the survey board’s activity, expressing that the EC’s lack of bias is enduring under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Censuring the demonstration of dropping the surveys in Vellore just as the strikes in Kanimozhi’s home on Tuesday evening, the gathering asked who the EC is attempting to fulfill through these demonstrations.

DMK further claimed that the EC and its authorities are functioning as an accomplice to the decision parties both at the Center and the state. It will likewise look at alternatives to approach the legal executive in such manner, the gathering included.

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TV serials peddling govt schemes? EC wants political content vetted

Election officials in Maharashtra directed producers of television serials Bhabhiji Ghar Par Hai and Tujhse Hai Raabta to remove content that was deemed to benefit prospects of a political party

Elections:Race authorities in Maharashtra have solicited generation houses from two Hindi TV serials blamed for embracing the BJP-drove government’s plans to get ‘politically compelling’ content verified with them before it is broadcast.

The substance broadcast was a reasonable infringement of the model race code, an authority said.

Maharashtra’s extra boss appointive officer Dilip Shinde, in a request issued on Monday stated, “The generation houses ought to get politically persuasive substance checked from race authorities before utilizing it in their serials.”

The Congress had taken protest to characters in the two TV serials applauding government plans like Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, Swacch Bharat Abhiyan and Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana. The two generation houses had accordingly answered to the notice.

“Passing by the substance circulated, it is apparent that it is an infringement of model set of accepted rules, he said. “We have asked the creation houses to expel the substance from the serials quickly,” he included.

Shinde said the clarification from makers of the two serials asserts the survey authorities’ feeling that the substance broadcast means to impact “one ideological group”.

Race authorities in Maharashtra coordinated makers of TV serials Bhabhiji Ghar Par Hai and Tujhse Hai Raabta to evacuate content that was esteemed to profit prospects of an ideological group.

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EC bars Mayawati, Adityanath from poll campaigning after SC enquiry

The SC bench referred to submissions of the EC that they can issue notice, then advisory and finally lodge a complaint against an errant politician for violating the Model Code of Conduct

Elections:The Election Commission (EC) on Monday restricted Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati from race battling for 72 hours and 48 hours, separately, beginning from 6 am on Tuesday, for damaging the Model Code of Conduct by owning frightful expressions in their addresses, detailed news office ANI.

The EC activity came after the Supreme Court observed the supposed despise addresses made by Mayawati and Yogi Adityanath amid battles and looked to know from the survey board about the activity started against them up until this point.

The Election Commission “firmly censured” Adityanath and Mayawati for their collective comments. The two have additionally been “reprimanded”.

Mayawati was issued the notice for her discourse in Deoband speaking to Muslims to not vote in favor of a specific gathering.

The BSP boss had by all appearances abused the model set of accepted rules, the survey board found.

Adityanath was served the notice for his “Ali” and “Bajrang Bali” comments while tending to a rally in Meerut.

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Present method of counting VVPAT slips most suitable: EC to Supreme Court

The Election Commission Friday told the Supreme Court that the present method of counting the VVPAT slips is the most suitable.

Elections: The Election Commission Friday told the Supreme Court that the present technique for checking the VVPAT slips is the most appropriate.

The survey board advocated the current arrangement of irregular checking of the VVPAT slips from one surveying stall for each get together section.

The Election Commission, which was asked on March 25 by the peak court to give its view on expanding the quantity of irregular example overviews from one corner for every get together fragment, said in future decisions, it might consider any proposals which result in further improving the holding of surveys in free and reasonable way.

“It is presented that with the approaching decisions issues brought up in the moment petitions are matters that have just been considered, contemplated and dictated by the Election Commission of India and have since finished in embracing the course of direct of the up and coming race in the present way,” the EC said in its affirmation.

It said the writ request recorded by 21 restriction pioneers, driven by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, does not raise any ground or base for changing the current framework at this point.

The survey board said the present framework which is being received for the inescapable decisions be permitted to be proceeded as “it has been observed to be generally appropriate”.

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Google ups efforts to check misinformation ahead of Lok Sabha elections

Google is also going to launch its political ad transparency report before Indian elections, scheduled to begin on April 11

Google signage is seen at Google headquarters in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., December 17, 2018. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

Technology: Not simply Facebook and Twitter, Google is additionally attempting to guarantee the legitimacy of data on its commercials and video stage as India heads towards General Elections in under a month.

On Thursday, the organization said it is guaranteeing legitimate news content shows signs of improvement play on YouTube, where recordings have seen development in watch time triple for substance from definitive sources over the most recent two years, said Tim Katz, the video stage’s executive of news associations.

YouTube, which is possessed by Google, is guaranteeing there is news from dependable sources that is put on the stage, with enough setting.

With races not exactly a month away, the Indian government has been attempting to address the issue of fake news spreading through online life and informing stages, for example, WhatsApp. As of late, the Parliamentary Committee on data innovation met with senior officials of Facebook and Twitter and the Election Commission has likewise said internet based life stages have resolved to help check the spread of phony news in the keep running up to races.

The video stage has acquainted certainty checks with its boards in India, just beneath the query items, which depends on and “open environment of distributers and actuality checking experts”.It is as of now accessible in Engligh and will in the blink of an eye be accessible in Hindi.

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