India News: The BJP on Monday asserted that Congress and its allies have lost the trust of the populace and failed to act as a responsible opposition. They have r
A BJP delegation comprising Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal also urged the poll panel to take cognisance of the systematic attempts being made to undermine the electoral process and initiate stringent action against those responsible.
Maintaining that "if the stand of ECI" (against disclosure of Forms 17Cs, containing numbers of votes cast at every polling station, the machines deployed with serial numbers and the number of votes polled at every machine) "is not exposed", then "ECI would be guilty of making democracy a sham", Congress Abhishek Singhvi alleged.
In the latest round of Rajya Sabha elections, there were double-crossing cross-voters across the board - six Congress MLAs crossing over to vote for the BJP candidate in Himachal Pradesh, and one BJP MLA slipping to the other side in Karnataka.
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