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.
This was a very interesting read. I would like to know, though, does this strategy of the BJP run deeper into local elections? I think that Municipal corporations are easily among the most corrupt and slow elected bodies in the country. Is the BJP trying to replace those politicians with their cadre?
Indians, like people of so many other poor and populated nations (or even poor societies in rich nations / rich societies in poor nations ), cling to power and pelf like blood sucking leech to the body. Be it netas, cricketers or celebrities we rarely see anybody retiring when they don’t need to, they all are made to retire. So it’s obvious.
We have almost none among us to show us by example that power and pelf is not everything in life. That’s why I say that we uplift as society as a whole. No matter how successful u individually are.
I know the news cycle is slow but he’s gonna be way too old then to properly campaign. Lot of wasted ink.