NEW DELHI, March 15: The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday.
In a post on X, the poll panel said a press conference to announce the schedule for Lok Sabha elections and some state assemblies will be held at 3 pm on Saturday
The term of the present Lok Sabha ends on June 16 and a new House has to be constituted before that.
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The term of the assemblies in Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha is coming to an end on various dates in June.
Last time the Lok Sabha polls were announced on March 10 and held in seven phases beginning April 11. Votes were counted on May 23.
In 2014 also, the EC had sent invites for its poll schedule press conference a day in advance. The invite was sent in the evening for the presser to be held early the next day.
Nearly 97 crore people are eligible to cast vote in the upcoming polls at over 12 lakh polling stations.
In the last parliamentary polls, the BJP had won 303 seats while the Congress got 52 seats. It could not muster enough numbers to claim the position of the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.
The 2024 parliamentary polls are being seen as a do or die battle for the opposition INDIA bloc.
According to a News 18 opinion poll, the BJP-led NDA is headed for a “historic mandate” in the upcoming polls.
The opinion poll claimed that the NDA is set to win 411 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha with the BJP alone clinching a record 350 seats.
According to an opinion poll survey by ABP-CVoter, the INDIA bloc is likely to get only six seats in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.
Meanwhile, on the eve of the Parliament poll dates announcement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the “lotus is going to bloom” in the southern state, and the BJP-led NDA would secure power at the Centre by surpassing previous records in the upcoming polls.
He urged Kerala voters to convert their “substantial support” into votes so that the BJP wins seats in the double digits in the state.
“We are going to witness a grand festival of democracy soon. I have a firm belief that this time Kerala’s love for the BJP will translate into a huge support. I have a firm belief that this time all previous records will be broken. I have a firm belief that this time our Kerala will break the vicious cycle of LDF and UDF,” Modi said. (PTI)
