Himanshi Dahiya
Reporter, Investigations at The Quint
Reporter @TheQuint | Interests: Politics, Gender, Social Justice et al | Email/leads: [email protected]
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1 month ago |
thequint.com | Himanshi Dahiya
(Before you read, a personal appeal: Working on these explainers involves extensive reading and understanding of complex constitutional procedures. Our reporters spend time on such stories and brainstorm over how to break these down for easy comprehension.
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1 month ago |
thequint.com | Himanshi Dahiya
The police, in a memo on the grounds of arrest, claimed that the accused committed a cognisable crime and if not arrested, is likely to "threaten" the complainant and her husband. "Since the arrested accused person is from a very strong social and economic background, and holds an influential position, if not arrested he might threaten/influence the complainant and more importantly her husband Manab Deka, who is an elected representative," the memo said.
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1 month ago |
thequint.com | Himanshi Dahiya
The All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), on 28 February, shared a list of people with duplicate EPIC numbers in voter rolls of West Bengal, and other states such as Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh. For context, an EPIC or Electors' Photo Identification Card which carries the EPIC number — a 10-digit unique identification number assigned by the Election Commission of India to each registered voter.
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2 months ago |
thequint.com | Himanshi Dahiya |Aditya Menon
The number of voters eligible to vote in Arvind Kejriwal's New Delhi seat, reduced by over 37,000 in 5 years. Former Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party convenor Arvind Kejriwal has lost from the New Delhi constituency, to BJP's Pravesh Verma by a margin of a little over 4,000 votes. Kejriwal has been winning the seat since 2013, when he had defeated three-term Congress Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
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2 months ago |
thequint.com | Himanshi Dahiya
As the ECI, on 7 February, released detailed electors and voter turnout data for assembly segments across Delhi, The Quint compared this with data from the 2020 Assembly elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections to find out the increase/decrease in total number of electors in each constituency. Here's what we found: The total number of registered voters in Delhi during the 2020 Assembly elections were 1,47,97,990.
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Again, to think that ECI feels that linking Aadhaar with EPIC is the best way to clean electoral rolls.
Aadhaar was built by incompetents like @NandanNilekani and @rssharma3 And running since on sheer incompetence. 7+ years after the pathetic state of Aadhaar security was exposed. @UIDAI hasn't managed to lock down their systems and close loopholes. #DigitalIndia #FAIL https://t.co/QiFgDmFU26
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It's become worse. The portal is fully down now. What's happening @DoPTGoI? What kind of technical difficulty takes months to be fixed?
The RTI portal has been down for more than 20 days now. Extremely difficult to file new requests, even more difficult to access responses to old ones. What's happening?
