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Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar while addressing a press conference on Saturday said all the preparations are almost complete for 2024 Parliamentary elections...
"We are fully prepared to conduct 2024 Parliamentary elections and state Assembly elections..
All the preparations are almost complete," said Kumar...
"Out of 37809, polling stations, there will be webcasting arrangements on 22,685 polling stations...person with disabilities, youth and women will be kept as key focus, for that there will be 300 polling stations which will be managed by persons with disabilities," he said...
On Friday, the ECI team conducted a review of poll preparedness for simultaneous elections to both the Lok Sabha and the Odisha Assembly...
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