2024 LS election dates: Nearly 970 million people are eligible to vote this time (representative)
New Delhi:
The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls this afternoon. The pollster posted on X that the dates for the general election and some state assembly elections will be announced at 3pm today.
The term of the current Lok Sabha will end on June 16, before which a new House of Representatives must be formed. The terms of the Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha assemblies will also end in June.
Nearly 970 million people are eligible to vote in the upcoming polls.
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In the last assembly polls, the re-election-seeking BJP won 303 seats while the Congress secured 52 seats. It was unable to muster enough numbers to contest the position of leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.
The upcoming polls are extremely important for India’s opposition bloc, which is trying to block the Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign.
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Lok Sabha elections 2024: 5 facts about BJP’s Gandhinagar candidate Amit ShahUnion Home Minister Amit Shah will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
1) Apart from his mother, the teachings of independence movement activist, politician and writer Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi also had a profound impact on Amit Shah.
2) Amit Shah’s interest in politics can be seen from his active participation in the campaign of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s daughter Maniben Patel at the age of 13. After a few years, Mr. Shah joined the RSS
3) Amit Shah, who became the Ahmedabad unit secretary of the BJP in 1989, participated in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and later the Ekta Yatra.
4) In 1997, Amit Shah, then the state finance minister of the Yuva Morcha of the Bharatiya Janata Party, contested the Sarkhej Assembly by-election and won by a margin of 25,000 votes. While serving as MLA, Amit Shah developed a close relationship with the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, eventually forming one half of the Modi-Shah dominated system.
5) In 2014, he took over as the national chairman of the Bharatiya Janata Party and in 2017 he was elected to the House of Federation from Gujarat. In 2019, he won the Gandhinagar seat with a margin of over 5 lakh votes and entered the Lok Sabha. He became the country’s interior minister.
Lok Sabha election 2024 live: 5 facts about Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who hopes to win again from Varanasi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will once again contest the Lok Sabha polls from Varanasi, seeking a record third term.
1) Narendra Modi was born on September 17, 1950 in Vadnagar town in Mehsana district of North Gujarat and lived with his family in a one-storey house.
2) Narendra Modi is believed to have been inspired by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda as a child.
3) At the age of 17, Narendra Modi left Vadnagar to travel across India to explore the culture and better understand his country. In 1972, Narendra Modi went to Ahmedabad and joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
4) In 1987, Narendra Modi entered mainstream politics and was appointed as the general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat a year later. In 2001, the party high command selected Narendra Modi to succeed Keshubhai Patel as the chief minister of Gujarat, a position he held until 2014.
5) In 2014, when the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power at the Center after a decade of Congress rule, Narendra Modi, who had become synonymous with development, was sworn in as Prime Minister of India.
Who has been appointed as the new election commissioner for the polling panel?
Two new election commissioners were inaugurated following the retirement of Anup Chandra Pandey in February and the surprise resignation of Arun Goel last week. Former IAS officers Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu have been appointed as members of the panel.
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