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ECI withdraws SIR declaration from Form 6 in States where the exercise is over

Satya Kumar Yadav questions the basis for allegations without documentary evidence; says political parties can raise objections through prescribed mechanisms, including Form 7, if they have concerns about entries in the electoral rolls

Thirty-five deputies want César Astudillo out over rising homicides and a candidate’s murder. The vote is due by 4 October and needs 66 of 130 votes. The post Peru’s Opposition Moves to Oust the Minister in Charge of Its Police appeared first on The Rio Times.

Claudia Macero, communications chief of María Corina Machado’s party, flew home to Venezuela on Sunday night as caravans demanded the Nobel winner’s safe return. Machado herself remains in Panama after seven failed attempts. The post Venezuela Opposition Aide Flies Home While Machado Stays Stuck in Panama appeared first on The Rio Times.

The BJP said Rahul Gandhi and Opposition leaders were conspiring to malign the country’s constitutional institutions and the Election Commission has already issued a fact-based clarification of “fabricated allegations”

Samrat Choudhary asks Opposition parties to come out with facts and evidence substantiating their charges

Chief Minister had earlier indicated that the government is seeking an audience with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a meeting with a delegation of leaders from all parties in Karnataka

Mr. Gandhi appears to be seeking consistency in his politics and, in the process, addressing a criticism that he is an inconsistent politician.

Urging Opposition leaders towards ‘constructive work’, Modi says rival parties tried to muffle his own voice ‘without remorse’ in the previous Parliament session

India’s youth-led Cockroach Janta Party has joined opposition calls for election chief Gyanesh Kumar to resign.

BJP leader says Opposition should not contest elections if it believes the electoral system is rigged

Opposition parties and OBC groups are against the open-column option in the 2027 Census; they say the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census also had an open field to record caste, yielding over 46 lakh caste names; successive governments did not act on that report, says experts

CPI State secretary Binoy Viswam says the first round of discussions on the issue with the CPI(M) has been completed and that more talks will follow; he slams EC for undermining democratic rights through SIR

Sitharaman rubbished the Opposition's allegations that the government had yielded to foreign pressure, saying the MDR was not a tax and would not accrue to the government

Czech opposition parties called a no-confidence vote in the government over budget plans that post the country’s second-largest shortfall next year.

The leader of Morocco's opposition PPS (Party of Progress and Socialism) arrived at a polling station in Rabat on Wednesday to vote in the parliamentary election.

The party rejects Opposition’s charge against SIR process, says Supreme Court had upheld its legal validity multiple times

Hundreds of Iranian Americans showed support for the France-based opposition coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

The parties also asked the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognizance of the report

Workers’ energy, enthusiasm show lotus will bloom in State again, says BJP chief after concluding his first visit to west U.P. after taking over as party head; ahead of parleys, Oppn. MPs engage in one-upmanship over who can defeat ruling party

The Madhya Pradesh government is the ‘most corrupt, incompetent’ in country, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi says, asking the State government to ‘take a look at the ground reality’, while criticising the lamp festival

VENEZUELA · POLITICS Key Facts — What happened. Government and opposition delegations resumed a second round of talks in Caracas on 15 September. — Who’s at the table. Dinorah Figuera, once head of the 2015-elected National Assembly, leads the opposition side. — The catch. Opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González are not part […] The post Venezuela: Government, Opposition Restart Talks on Courts and Vote appeared first on The Rio Times.

Mr. Choudhary took a U-turn on at least six major decisions due to pressure from the Opposition and the public in general

The statement of objects and reasons of the Bill says the State intends the govt. to optimise the utilisation of human resources in the higher education sector; Opposition MLAs flag that it will lead to selective targeting of academicians critical of the Bengal govt.

Frequent revisions and claims and counter-claims by the government and the Opposition lead to disputes

CAMEROON · POLITICS Key Facts —The resignation Maurice Kamto, Cameroon’s best-known opposition figure, resigned on Monday, September 8, as national president of the MRC, the party he founded and has led since 2012. —The letter He announced the decision himself on social media — a terse, three-sentence letter to the party’s national directorate citing the […] The post Cameroon’s Maurice Kamto Quits as Leader of the MRC Opposition Party appeared first on The Rio Times.

Gulzar Singh, a 47-year-old from Dirba in Sangrur district, died on September 7. His family said he had questioned Harpal Cheema about the supply of drugs in the area during an event in Dirba

Mr. Nabin claimed that the identity of the Opposition has become such that they cannot bear to see India’s development, India’s heritage, and India’s culture moving forward