Jan 7
Aam Aadmi Party has approached the Election Commission seeking removal of anomalies in the voters list of Delhi. A Party delegation led by AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, yesterday met the Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath and Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi Chandra Bhushan Kumar and submitted a memorandum claiming that around 4 lakh fake voters are in the national capital. It also demanded action against Booth Level Officers for the discrepancies in the voters list. Later briefing reporters, Kejriwal also urged the poll body to conduct a probe in the issue.
Rouhani wins Iran's Presidential election Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani won Iran's presidential election on Saturday, the interior ministry said, scoring a surprising landslide victory over conservative hardliners without the need of a second round run-off.Interior minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced on state television that Rouhani secured just over 50 percent of the ballot based on a 72 percent turnout of 50 million eligible voters. Mr Hassan Rouhani ... got the absolute majority of votes and was elected as president," Najjar said. Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, a hard-line conservative, lagged behind with about 16 percent of the votes. Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, he too a hard-line conservative, earned 11 percent. The voter turnout was 72.7 percent. President-elect Hassan Rohani, sixty four years old, is known as a moderate conservative. He has been stressing the need to improve ties with Western nations, and is back...
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