Gujarat poll preparedness to be reviewed Tuesday

April 30th, 2009 UMARGAON - An entire village in Umargaon area of Valsad district in south Gujarat decided to boycott the polls Thursday, after they came to vote but discovered many mistakes in the voters' list, a poll official here said. The voters from Sajjan Bander village were irked by what they called 'innumerable mistakes' in the voters' list which created confusion when they reached the polling stations to cast their votes as polling began in Gujarat at 7 a.m.

April 28th, 2009 KOLKATA - Election Commissioner V. S. Sampat and his Deputy R.

April 15th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Election Commissioner Dr. S.Y. Qureshi will arrive here today to review poll preparedness in Gujarat for the coming Lok Sabha polls.

April 13th, 2009 BHOPAL - Election Commissioner Navin Chawla will arrive here this afternoon to review poll preparedness in Madhya Pradesh for the coming Lok Sabha polls. During his two-day visit, Chawla will hold meeting with representatives of political parties.

April 9th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat has sought more paramilitary forces for poll duty, pointing out that the state has been on the terror map, an official said here Thursday. 'As of now, the central government has allotted 100 companies of paramilitary forces for poll duty in Gujarat against the state government's demand for 375 companies considering that Gujarat is a potential terrorist target,' the senior home department official told IANS.

April 6th, 2009 PATNA - Election Commissioner Naveen Chawla will arrive here today to review poll preparedness in Bihar for the coming Lok Sabha polls. During his visit, Chawla will hold discussion with senior officials of the state to ensure free and fair polls.

April 6th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has converted its Gujarat headquarters here into a wi-fi zone for the busy election period and enrolled young tech-savvy volunteers to help design its online campaign to woo upwardly mobile voters. The party office now has seamless internet connectivity and each of the volunteers has a personal laptop.

April 1st, 2009 DAHOD - The Gujarat police have intensified patrolling on a highway bordering Madhya Pradesh following reports of a number of make-shift country liquor vends coming up in the neighbouring state. The police suspect that before the polls, a lot of liquor is being smuggled from Madhya Pradesh to Gujarat, a state under prohibition.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is the most popular leader in the state and was likely to retain the post, an opinion poll said Tuesday. 'Narendra Modi emerges as the most popular candidate to be the next chief minister in Gujarat with 45 percent people in favour of him.

March 21st, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Election Commission on Friday reviewed the poll preparedness for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections here. In the first round, Chief Election Commissioner N.

March 21st, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami, who was here Friday to review Orissa's poll preparedness, said all high-profile candidates contesting the elections would be closely monitored.

March 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalswami and two Election Commissioners Navin Chawla and S Y Quraishi will review the poll preparedness for the coming Lok Sabha polls here today. The team, who arrived here last evening, will also interact with senior officials in the state.

March 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After announcing the five-phase voting dates for the Lok Sabha elections, the three-member Election Commission of India will leave Wednesday to review poll preparedness in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. 'The full Election Commission will be leaving tomorrow (Wednesday) evening for Lucknow to undertake review of preparation for the general election in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.

March 4th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Mahagujarat Janata Party (MJP), formed by dissident Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators, will focus on the problems of Gujarat's nearly two million diamond workers during its campaign for the Lok Sabha polls, for which it will pick candidates after the big parties have announced their nominees. 'We will wait for the BJP and Congress to announce their list of candidates for the 26 Lok Sabha seats and then decide which of our candidates should be fielded,' MJP president Govardhan Zadhapia told IANS.

February 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Wednesday directed the chief electoral officers (CEOs) of all states and union territories to enlist the support of booth level agents (BLAs) of the political parties for updating electoral rolls ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. In a meeting called to review the preparedness for the forthcoming elections, the central poll panel asked the state CEOs to prepare and distribute electoral photo identity cards (EPIC) at the earliest.