Lok Sabha Election 2024 Dates: The Election Commission has announced the dates of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Election dates will be announced on March 16. It will be live streamed on all the social media platforms of the Election Commission. Lok Sabha elections can be held in seven to eight phases.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Dates: The Election Commission will announce the dates of Lok Sabha elections 2024 at 3 pm on Saturday. Along with this, the dates of assembly elections will also be announced in some states. These assembly elections will be held in Odisha, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Dates: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar along with newly appointed Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu will announce the dates of Lok Sabha elections. It will be live streamed on all the social media platforms of the Election Commission. Sources said that Lok Sabha elections can be held in seven to eight phases.
Earlier on Thursday, after the appointment of new election commissioners, he took charge today. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar welcomed both the Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu on Friday morning. After both of them took charge, an important meeting of the Election Commission was held today around 11 o’clock. In this meeting, preparations for the Lok Sabha elections were reviewed.
During this, both the Election Commissioners brainstormed with the CEC on finalizing the election programme.
Survey predicts big victory for BJP
Between December 2023 and January 2024, India Today had conducted a ‘Mood of the Nation’ survey to understand the mood of the country. It was revealed in the survey that BJP is going to score a hat-trick in 2024.
According to the survey, NDA is expected to get 335 seats out of 543. Whereas, 166 seats can go to India Block’s account. Others may get 42 seats. Of these, BJP can single-handedly win 304 seats. Congress may get 71 seats and others may get 168 seats.
INDIA in front of NDA
Opposition parties have formed ‘INDIA’ alliance to counter the BJP-led NDA. There are more than two dozen opposition parties in this alliance. Whereas, there are about 40 parties in NDA. NDA currently has more than 350 MPs. Whereas, India Block has about 150 MPs. However, India Block has also suffered a setback in many states, because the parties there have decided to fight alone. For example, Mamata Banerjee’s TMC is part of the India Bloc, but TMC is contesting alone on all 42 seats of West Bengal.
Last time elections were held in 7 phases
In 2019, Lok Sabha elections were conducted in seven phases. Last time the Election Commission had announced the dates on March 10. Voting for the first phase was held on 11 April and voting for the last phase was held on 19 May. The results came on 23 May. At the time of that election, there were more than 91 crore voters in the country, out of which 67 percent had cast their vote.
What were the results in 2019
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP had achieved a bigger victory than in 2014. In 2014, BJP had won 282 seats, while in 2019 it had won 303 seats. Whereas, NDA had won 353 seats. BJP had got more than 37.7% votes, while NDA had got 45% votes. Congress could win only 52 seats.
