Tag: Ballot Box

At a time when the fate of the candidates in the fray for the Panchayat elections are sealed in the ballot boxes, contestants in some places are getting anxious about the security arrangements at the strong rooms. 

Doubting something mischief might occur to the ballot boxes, the candidates are having their own security arrangements in place around the strong rooms. 

The fear of tampering of ballot boxes has started gripping the Opposition parties in Odisha ahead of the voting for the Panchayat polls.

Kendrapara: Acute violence was seen during first phase of three tier panchayat polls at Mahakalpada in Kendrapara district. Miscreants looted the ballot box from booth number 14 in Jagdalpur village under Patkura panchayat and threw it in Chitrotpala River. Similarly the ballot boxes from booth number 12 and 14 in Bangalpur panchayat of the district […]

Violence has been an inseparable part of elections in states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal since as long as one can remember. Killings, rigging and booth capturing marked elections in many parts of the country in the pre-EVM era. Odisha, in contrast, was an island of peace in those days. Maoist violence was […]