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India's Election Commission is set to announce dates from the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on Saturday, with a press conference scheduled for 3:30 pm..
This year's Lok Sabha elections could see voting take place over six or seven phases, likely starting in late April, with the results likely to be announced a month later, in May..
April's elections will replace the Lok Sabha, whose term is ending on June 16, while state polls will see voting in Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim..
Saturday's election announcement is taking place a day after the Election Commission was restored to its usual strength of three members with two new election commissioners, Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, taking charge on March 15...
The assessment shared with EC during the CECs visit to J&K on March 12-13 is in favour of getting the security apparatus to focus on protecting the fewer candidates for parliamentary polls than spreading the forces thin to secure the far larger number of candidates that simultaneous polls to LS and UT assembly may entail...
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