DMK complains to EC against unauthorised entry of persons, vehicles in strong room campuses
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Last Updated: Apr 16, 2021, 05:12 PM IST
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In different instances, covered vehicles were brought to such campuses in Coimbatore, Tiruvallur and Chennai and when asked they were said to be mobile toilets meant for women police personnel.
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DMK President M K Stalin
The DMK on Friday alleged unauthorised entry of persons and vehicles in campuses having strong rooms used to store EVMs used in the April 6 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu and urged the Election Commission to take action on the matter. In a memorandum to Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and state Chief Electoral Officer Satyabrata Sahoo, DMK President M K Stalin listed out various such instances and urged the EC to ensure no such vehicles or persons entered the premises.
2021 Assembly poll holds similarities to 2016
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The conclusion can be drawn from the overall turnout and the constituencies that recorded high polling
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The conclusion can be drawn from the overall turnout and the constituencies that recorded high polling
The 2021 Assembly election has similarities to the 2016 election, going by an analysis of the voter turnout data. The conclusion can be drawn from two factors the overall turnout figure and the constituencies with a high turnout.
As per the provisional figure of the total turnout released by Chief Electoral Officer Satyabrata Sahoo on Wednesday, the current election’s tally 72.78% is marginally lower than the 2016 figure of 74.24%. After reconciliation of data, the State’s average may go up.
V K Sasikala s name deleted from voters list, says her counsel
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Last Updated: Apr 06, 2021, 10:18 AM IST
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As Tamil Nadu goes to the polls on Tuesday, the name of Sasikala, which figured in the Thousand Lights Assembly constituency in Chennai, was deleted, N Raja Senthoor Pandian said. V K Sasikala
The name of V K Sasikala, confidante of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, has been removed from the voters list and it is an injustice, her legal counsel said here on Monday.
She was sad about it and legal action would be initiated against the official responsible, he said.
Brisk polling in TN; leaders, actors among early voters
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Chennai: A voter shows her inked finger after casting her vote for the second phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, at a polling station in Chennai on April 18, 2019. . Image Source: IANS News
Chennai, April 6 : Leaders of various political parties, several movie actors and general public voted early on Tuesday after the voting started at 7 a.m. in Tamil Nadu.
Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam, DMK President M.K. Stalin, PMK Founder S.Ramadoss, Congress leader P. Chidambaram, DMDK Treasurer Premalatha Vijayakant, NTK leader Seeman, MNM leader Kamal Haasan and others cast their votes.
Chennai public nab duo carrying EVMs on two-wheeler, CEO says machines were unpolled
However, Chief Electoral Officer Satyabrata Sahoo assuaged fears and clarified that they were unpolled EVMs kept in the reserve.
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Police deployed at Velachery Taramani High Road after a unknown person took three vote counting machines from a election booth at Velachery. (Photo I EPS) By Express News Service
CHENNAI: Two persons carrying EVMs and a VVPAT machine on a two-wheeler after the polling ended on Tuesday created a flutter in Velachery. The duo was caught by motorists and passersby over suspicions of EVM theft and handed over to police.