The Election Fee stated right now, March 15, that it could launch the schedule for Lok Sabha and state meeting elections tomorrow.
The Lok Sabha election announcement shall be made at a press convention in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, at 3 p.m.
Taking to social media platform X, previously referred to as Twitetr, the ballot physique stated, tomorrow, Saturday, March 16, at 3 p.m., the Election Fee will maintain a press convention to announce the schedule for the overall elections in 2024 in addition to some state assemblies. It will likely be broadcast reside on the ECI’s social media handles, it added.
As quickly because the dates of the election are introduced, the Mannequin Code of Conduct will come into impact. The Mannequin Code of Conduct is a algorithm that the Election Fee points concerning speeches, bulletins, election manifestos, and basic habits for candidates, political events, the federal government, and the ruling social gathering all through the election course of.
The present Lok Sabha’s tenure ends on June 16, and a brand new Home have to be established previous to that date.
The final Lok Sabha elections befell in seven phases, beginning on April 11 and being introduced on March 10. The counting of the votes was performed on Might 23.
The 2 just lately appointed election commissioners, Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, joined the ballot panel on the identical day that the Election Fee introduced the ballot schedule.
Two positions grew to become out there for election commissioners on the Election Fee of India after Anup Chandra Pandey retired on February 14 and Arun Goel abruptly resigned final week.
The political contest between the Congress-led INDIA alliance and the PM Narendra Modi-led NDA authorities can even be framed by this announcement.
In the meantime, the most important voters for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections is anticipated to be 96.88 crore folks, in keeping with the Election Fee’s announcement earlier this month.