The dates for the Lok Sabha elections will be announced by the Election Commission on Saturday at 3 pm. Election dates for Assembly polls in a few states will also be announced today, as stated by the central poll body.
This announcement comes as the term of the current Lok Sabha nears its end on June 16th.
The ECI announced that the polling schedule for the general elections will be announced on a televised live conference this afternoon.
The Election Commission said in a post on X on Friday that the press conference to announce the polling schedule in India will be held at 3 pm today. The elections will be scheduled in April-May of this year, while the term of the current government is set to end on June 16.
The previous Lok Sabha election schedule was announced on March 10 by the ECI, and polling was conducted in seven phases across the country, starting from April 11. The counting of the votes was done on May 23.
Nearly 97 crore people are eligible to cast vote in the upcoming polls at over 12 lakh polling stations. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the ruling BJP won 303 seats while Congress got 52 seats. The BJP-led NDA has expressed confidence for the upcoming polls as well, hoping to win over 300 seats.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the eve of the announcement of the upcoming general elections, said that NDA is expected to break all records when it comes to vote share.
While addressing a massive public meeting in Kerala, PM Modi on Friday asserted that the “lotus is going to bloom”, 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.
