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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.

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Video doing the rounds on social media is from January 2018, when Dinesh Sharma, BJP candidate contesting Dhamnod civic elections in Madhya Pradesh, was campaigning in the area.

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Political analysts say Hyderabad has never seen a candidate like Latha before & media savvy has propelled her to national attention — and made it seem like a closer fight than it is. 

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'In a constitutional democracy, the government is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people,' CJI Chandrachud said in a video message.

PDP chief in fray, Azad’s flip flop, Paharis, delimitation — why Anantnag-Rajouri is a must-watch seat

Amogh Rohmetra -
Though battle is between NC & PDP on paper, results cannot be taken for granted as there are players like DPAP, Apni Party. Constituency is geographically & ethnically diverse.

18 Muslims, 14 OBCs, 10 Brahmins — BSP’s candidate selection could hurt INDIA bloc more than NDA

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Police arrest 3 after violence mars polling in Manipur. Firing at booths, EVMs destroyed

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Voting began Friday across 2,107 polling booths in 47 assembly segments. ‘Armed miscreants’ disrupted poll proceedings in valley areas, low turnout in Kangpokpi.

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ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.

No Mandir or Hindutva, BJP’s Maneka Gandhi banks on work for second term from Sultanpur

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‘I never ask your caste or religion, all I ask is what I can do for you,’ she tells the crowds in her rallies, advising people to ‘vote for the party that has worked for you’.

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While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.
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