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.
I second “Ashok” here. The only thing political parties seem to care about is winning elections. To what end, I’d like to ask. They give out freebies bought with taxpayers’ money, make inflammatory statements, anything that can help them win elections.
As for the public, even they seem to have been caught up in the “tamasha”. Columnists, such as the author, too talk just about increasing vote share and seat share and so on. Nothing about accountability or evaluating promises made or how they have been governing. Veey sad state of affairs. Really makes me wonder if we truly deserve democracy at all.
BJP governance is as good as Mulayam singh yadavs . Thugs and those with political clout rule and exploit the masses. UP politics still has a long way to go.
Missing in this fine column – admittedly a political analysis – is any discussion of what the BJP, looking to complete three successive terms in office at the Centre, is planning to do to improve the living standards of ordinary households. The sort of delivery which forms the basis for continued electoral success. 2. Although defence is not my domain, Pakistan will be getting fifth generation aircraft and submarines with Air Independent Propulsion before India does. With so much political authority, what has stood in the way of much better, streamlined defence acquisition procedures.
BJP will be blown to smithereens. It has reduced itself to a laughing stock as it no longer delivers governance but nuisance.