Lok Sabha Election Dates: Election Commission sets date & time to announce general election schedule

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The Election Commission will announce the schedule for General Elections and state assemblies at 3 pm tomorrow, i.e., March 16..

With elections slated to take place some time around April-May 2024, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party is looking to come back to power for the third consecutive term, having bagged the majority in 2014 and 2019...

Campaigning for the upcoming polls are already underway, with the BJP confidently claiming that the party would clinch over 400 seats in the 543-seats strong Lok Sabha...

In 2019, the BJP managed to corner 37.36 per cent of the votes, effectively achieving the highest vote share by any political party in India since the 1989 general election..

The Election Commission had announced that nearly 97 crore Indians will be eligible to vote in this year's Lok Sabha elections, reflecting a 6 per cent increase in registered voters since 2019..

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