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Topic2024 Lok Sabha Elections

Topic: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections

Lok Sabha elections 2024 refers to the general elections scheduled to take place starting 19 April in seven phases. The results of these election will give India its next government.

Lok Sabha elections or General Elections are conducted every five years in India. Held across 543 constituencies, Members of Parliament to the lower house are elected through these polls. The party with a majority in the Lok Sabha then forms the government at the Centre, so these elections eventually lead to the election of the Prime Minister and their cabinet.

The Lok Sabha, or the House of the People, is the lower house of India’s bicameral Parliament. The upper house is called the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies.

The first Lok Sabha elections were held in 1951 when the Indian National Congress came to power with Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime Minister. The last such election was held in 2019, where the Bharatiya Janta Party came to power with an overwhelming majority with Narendra Modi as prime minister. The next elections are scheduled to take place in 7 phases starting 19 April 2024. The Election Commission of India is responsible for conducting these elections.

Businesses battered, but ‘aayega toh Modi hi’­ — why Kanpur’s small business owners still back BJP

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Never said Constitution forced on Goa, called for protecting Goanness — Congress’s Viriato Fernandes

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South Goa candidate says Modi 'is lying' and he has challenged PM to a debate. Modi had called Fernandes' remarks, made at a public meeting, an ‘insult’ to Constitution & Ambedkar.

India will turn into ‘Bigg Boss House’ if BJP returns to power, says Aaditya Thackeray

Purva Chitnis -
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader & former state minister Aaditya Thackeray also talks about falling out with BJP & big-ticket projects moving from Maharashtra to neighbouring Gujarat.

Owaisi effect notwithstanding, why Kishanganj’s Muslims back Congress despite unpopular incumbent

Mayank Kumar -
AIMIM has made inroads among the Bihar district's youth in semi-urban areas, but rural Muslims, more in number, say they will give Congress's Mohammad Jawed one more chance.

‘Deshbhakts scared of X-ray of caste census’: Rahul Gandhi attacks PM Modi, BJP

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Speaking at Samajik Nyay Sammelan in Delhi, the Congress leader also said that 'as soon as our government is formed, the first thing that would be done is caste census.'

‘Paani do, vote lo’ — Jodhpur’s villages don’t care who comes to power, they only want water

Neelam Pandey -
Caught amid the slugfest between Congress and BJP in Rajasthan are the people of Jodhpur district, who are hoping that the elections will bring about some change.

Student leader, lawyer & a ‘sharp’ politician’ — who is Tashi Gyalson, BJP’s candidate for Ladakh

Ananya Bhardwaj -
Gyalson was announced as BJP candidate as sitting MP Namgyal was dropped after he became unpopular among Ladakhis for 'not standing up for the region'.

Surrounded, heckled & shown black flags, BJP candidates in Punjab are facing farmers’ wrath

Chitleen K Sethi -
From singer-politician Hans Raj Hans to Patiala MP Preneet Kaur, BJP candidates are facing protests from farmers over MSP issue & death of 4 farmers, allegedly run over by minister's son.

Rahul Gandhi breached decorum of INDIA bloc by criticising Pinarayi — CPI(M) candidate KK Shailaja

Aneesa PA -
Former Kerala health minister, who is contesting from Vadakara, says Left fielded senior leaders so 'people know that the leaders will raise their voices in Parliament when needed'.

My job is to work, not sit in people’s homes — Hema Malini, BJP’s Mathura pick vying for 3rd term

Krishan Murari -
On the Krishna Janmabhoomi row, the two-time MP said 'we will surely witness something grand soon'. Her top priority, however, is the Banke Bihari Temple Corridor.
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