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The newly appointed Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar took charge on Wednesday, replacing Rajiv Kumar, who demitted office on Tuesday, as head of the poll panel. Vivek Singh Joshi, a former Haryana cadre IAS officer, assumed charge as an Election Commissioner. In his message to voters after assuming charge, Kumar said, First step for nation building is voting. Therefore, every citizen of India who has completed 18 years of age should become an elector and should always vote. Kumar assert
NEW DELHI: Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and a member of the committee Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said it is disrespectful and discourteous for the prime minister and home minister to have made a midnight decision to select the new CEC when the process of selection is being challenged in the Supreme Court. The government late on Monday night appointed Gyanesh Kumar as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), hours after the meeting of the prime minister-led selection committee. During the
PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday expressed grief over the deaths in a stampede at New Delhi railway station , and announced ex gratia for the next of kin of the deceased hailing from the eastern state. At least 18 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in the stampede that broke out late Saturday night at the crowded railway station. The CM has expressed condolences over the casualties in the stampede at the New Delhi railway station. He is deeply saddened by the deat
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday accused the government of attempting to hide the truth about the deaths in the stampede at the New Delhi Railway Station that led to the death of 18 people, and said it has once again highlighted the failure of the railways and the insensitivity of the government. Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said better arrangements should have been made at the station in view of the large number of devotees going to Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh. This incident