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Neelambaran A
DMK May Have Upper Hand in Vellore Lok Sabha Seat Elections
06 Aug 2019
The AIADMK’s major alliance partner, BJP, remained mute during the campaign.
Abir Dasgupta, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Election Commission Failed to Curb Fake News Online Before 2019 Lok Sabha Polls
30 Jul 2019
Caught in the midst of a high-stakes battle on the future of regulating the internet, the EC tried and failed miserably to regulate online propaganda, political campaigning, and fake news prior to…
Kashif Kakvi
Journalist Challenges Pragya Thakur’s Election in Madhya Pradesh High Court
13 Jul 2019
In 400-page petition, journalist claimed that Pragya has bluntly violated Model Code of Conduct and the Representation of People Act by terming the election a dharma yudh.
PTI
Election for Vellore Lok Sabha Seat on August 5
04 Jul 2019
Polling for the Lok Sabha seat was scheduled for April 18, along with the other constituencies of Tamil Nadu, but was cancelled on April 16 following the recovery of a huge amount of cash allegedly…
Ravi Nair
ECI’s Stance on Data Discrepancies: No Right to Question?
13 Jun 2019
Is the ECI saying that if the winning margin is higher than the margin of discrepancy in data, then it should not be questioned?
Neelambaran A
Tamil Nadu’s Opposition Unity Resisted Modi-Edappadi Combine — CPI(M) State Secretary
06 Jun 2019
2019 Lok Sabha elections results were unexpected, but the credit for the mandate to Modi cannot be given to his achievements or services to the people. The BJP succeeded in instigating the Hindutva-…
Chandan Nandy, Kashif Kakvi
‘Phantom Votes’: 119 of 120 LS Seats in UP, Bihar Under Cloud?
01 Jun 2019
NewsClick carried out an analysis based on the ECI data for total votes counted and on the two states’ poll panel's website for the total number of registered voters in each of the 120 constituencies…
Ravi Nair
Why EC Owes an Answer to the Country Over ‘Phantom Votes’
31 May 2019
In order to ensure that the democratic fabric of this country is unruptured, the Election Commission needs to step up and address this issue.
Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury
How Can Congress Reinvent Itself
31 May 2019
Lifeline of a democracy is the role played by a constructive opposition, and Congress needs to rise to the occasion for this.
Newsclick Production
Can MPs Facing Criminal Charges Be Trusted with India’s Future?
30 May 2019
As per the ADR report, 43% of these MPs have criminal cases registered against them, while 29% of them are facing serious charges.