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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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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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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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‘BJP like Ganga, Constitution not Gita, can be changed in national interest’ — Union minister Shekhawat

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6 Eastern Nagaland districts abstain from voting over Centre’s delay on ‘frontier territory’ demand

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Eastern Nagaland Peoples' Organisation imposed indefinite shutdown Thursday. It is demanding 'frontier territory' since 2010 over successive govts alleged apathy towards this region.

‘Mataji’ Maneka & Smriti ‘Didi’ — 2 key BJP contenders & 2 contrasting campaigns in Uttar Pradesh

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Smriti Irani takes potshots at the Congress & Rahul Gandhi at her Amethi rallies; in Sultanpur, Maneka Gandhi focuses on listing her work and asks people to vote for their benefit.

Congregation of 25,000 priests & Hanuman chalisa recitals — Delhi BJP’s Lok Sabha campaign plan

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With construction of Ram temple front and centre of its campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, Delhi BJP is also planning to hold meeting of social media influencers on 27 April.
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