Arvind Gunasekar

Election 2019: After Rahul Gandhi, Chandrababu Naidu Meets Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Shylaja Varma | Saturday May 18, 2019

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu met Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in Delhi today and discussed firming up a non-BJP front to keep the ruling party out of power after results of the national election are declared next week. He also met Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar in the capital.

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa Opts Out Of Meetings Over Clean Chits

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Sreenivasan Jain, Edited by Debanish Achom | Saturday May 18, 2019

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has skippedmeetings of the Election Commission on deciding violations of the Model Code over what he claimed was his "minority decisions going unrecorded", NDTV has learnt. The Election Commission had cleared Prime Minister Narendra Modi of any poll code violation in six instances.

General Election 2019: Sonia Gandhi Takes Over Hosting Duties For May 23 Opposition Meet

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Thursday May 16, 2019

Sonia Gandhi, who remains chairperson of the UPA after handing charge of the Congress to son Rahul Gandhi in 2017, has taken the lead in opposition consolidation efforts to prep for the possibility of a less than decisive verdict on May 23, the day the votes cast in the staggered national election are counted.

Ex-Kolkata Top Cop Rajeev Kumar, Sent To Delhi, Reports To Home Ministry

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Debanish Achom | Thursday May 16, 2019

Former Kolkata police chief Rajeev Kumar reported for duty at the Home Ministry in Delhi today after the Election Commission relieved him as the additional director general of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in West Bengal. The poll commission's move to attach him with the Home Ministry came after violence during a rally by BJP chief Am...

Election Body Invokes Article 324 After Bengal Clashes. What It Says...

India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan and Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Saturday May 18, 2019

The Election Commissionon Wednesdayinvoked Article 324 of the Constitution to prohibit election campaigning in nine constituencies of West Bengal from 10 pm on Thursday until the conclusion of the Lok Sabha polls on May 19. It took the decision in view of clashes between the BJP and the Trinamool Congress over the last 24 hours, which resulted in l...

Voting To Be Held Again At "Captured" Haryana Booth, Officers Face Action

India News | Reported by Sukirti Dwivedi and Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Monday May 13, 2019

A day after a BJP agent was accused of forcing women to vote for his party during the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls in Faridabad's Asaoti village, the Election Commission on Monday ordered re-polling at the booth and initiated action against three officials for "dereliction of duty".

"Asked To Pick Lotus": Faridabad Woman Seen In "Booth Capture" Video

India News | Reported by Sukirti Dwivedi and Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Tuesday May 14, 2019

A BJP agent accused of trying to push three women into voting for the "lotus symbol" at a polling booth in Faridabad's Asaoti village was released on bail hours after his arrest on Sunday evening. The man, Giriraj Singh, has denied all charges - claiming that he was only trying to help "illiterate" women from the village cast their votes.

Election 2019: Poll Agent Arrested Over Video of 'Booth Capture' In Haryana's Faridabad

Cities | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Shylaja Varma | Monday May 13, 2019

A polling agent in Faridabad near Delhi was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly influenced voters in the sixth round of the national election. The action was taken against the official after a video on Twitter was brought to the notice of the Haryana election body.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Army Gets Poll Body Notice Over "Vote By Phone" Complaint, Issues Denial

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar and Nazir Masoodi, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Friday May 10, 2019

Army officers posted in Jammu and Kashmir's Leh province have been accused of violating electoral norms by asking soldiers to specify their voting preferences by phone and casting votes on their behalf instead of adhering to the standard procedure of providing ballot papers. A complaint in this regard was cited in a notice issued by Leh Election Of...

Electoral Bond Sale Jumps 157% In Poll Season, Touches Rs 3,622 Crore

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Friday May 10, 2019

Electoral bonds have seen a 157% jump in sales during election season, notching Rs 3,622 crore in the March-April period. This comes up to almost double the bonds that were sold in the last 10 months.

INX Media Case: CBI Backs Indrani Mukerjea's Plea To Turn Approver Against Karti Chidambaram

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Friday May 10, 2019

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today said it had no objection to the application of Indrani Mukherjee to turn approver in the INX media case against Karti Chidambaram, the son of former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram.

Election 2019: Defamation vs Defamation In AAP-BJP Pamphlet War Ahead Of Delhi Vote

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Shylaja Varma | Friday May 10, 2019

Cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir, the BJP's East Delhi candidate, has said he will sue Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and the Aam Aadmi Party's star candidate Atishi after her party on Thursday accused him of circulating offensive pamphlets on her. He has sent a defamation notice to the AAP trio demanding ...

Elections 2019: As KCR Launches "Third Front" Meetings, Stalin "Busy" With Campaign

India News | Reported by Sneha Mary Koshy, Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Tuesday May 7, 2019

A Prime Minister from south India in a non-BJP, non-Congress concoction at the centre is Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's mission, say sources, as his meeting with his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday piqued political interest.

No Change In Poll Timings For Ramzan, Says Election Commission

India News | Reported by Arvind Gunasekar, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Monday May 6, 2019

The Election Commission today said that there will be no change in poll timings for Ramzan, turning down a petition for voting to start as early as 4:30 am in the last three phases of the Lok Sabha elections.

Election Commission's 'Cover Up' Of Dissent: How It Began

India News | Written by Sreenivasan Jain, Arvind Gunasekar | Sunday May 5, 2019

The first instance of dissent within the Election Commission - and the poll panel's alleged attempts to cover it up - flared up 10 days ago, over an order pertaining to a Rajasthan BJP leader, NDTV has found. As NDTV earlier reported, the same Commissioner dissented with the Commission over clean chits to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief ...