NEW DELHI: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, together with Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, on Saturday mentioned that Lok Sabha elections within the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh can be held in seven phases, starting from April 19. The CEC additionally introduced the dates for polls for the Lok Sabha elections 2024, which can be held in 7 phases ranging from April 19. The outcomes can be introduced on June 4.
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Schedule
Phase 1 voting can be held on April 19, Phase 2 voting can be held on April 26, Phase 3 voting can be held on May 7, Phase 4 voting can be held on May 13,
Phase 5 voting can be on May 20, Phase 6 voting will happen on May 25 and Phase 7 voting can be held on June 1. The outcomes can be introduced on June 4.
With the formal announcement of the 2024 Lok Sabha election schedule, the Model Code of Conduct has additionally come into impact throughout the nation. It could also be famous that the tenure of the current Lok Sabha ends on June 16 and a brand new House have to be constituted earlier than that. In 2019, the final elections have been held over seven phases from April 11 to May 19, with outcomes declared 4 days later. The BJP-led National Democratic (NDA) gained a complete of 303 seats, leaving the grand-old celebration behind at 52 seats, within the 2019 normal elections.
Total 96.8 Crore Voters Eligible To Cast Votes: CEC
A complete of 96.8 crore voters can be eligible to solid their vote within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar mentioned on Saturday. Addressing a press convention right here to announce the dates of Lok Sabha elections and meeting polls to 4 states, Rajiv Kumar mentioned there can be 10.5 lakh polling stations and 1.5 crore polling officers and safety workers can be deployed to conduct the elections on the earth’s largest democracy.
“We are committed to giving the nation a truly festive, democratic environment. The term of the 17th Lok Sabha is due to expire on 16th June 2024. The terms of the Legislative Assemblies of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim are also due to expire in June 2024. Elections are due in Jammu and Kashmir,” he mentioned.
Kumar mentioned roughly 49.7 crore voters are male and 47.1 crore voters are feminine.
“We have 1.8 crore first-time voters and 19.47 crore voters between the age group of 20-29 years,” he mentioned, including that 88.4 lakh voters are of PwD class, 2.18 lakhs are centenarians and 48,000 are transgenders.
UP Voting Dates, Lok Sabha Election Schedule: Know Polling And Result Day In Kanpur, Ghaziabad, Varanasi, Lucknow And Other Big Constituencies
Uttar Pradesh is taken into account as essentially the most essential state politically because it sends 80 parliamentarians to the Lok Sabha. The largest state electorally stays one of many key focus areas of political events because it has the ability to be a game-changer for them. It is commonly mentioned that the highway to Delhi passes by means of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, which is essentially the most populous state of India. According to main opinion polls, the ruling BJP is projected to brush the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh with a report mandate this time.
UP Lok Sabha: Looking Back At 2019 And 2014 Results
In the 2019 normal election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gained 62 seats within the state whereas its ally Apna Dal (S) bagged two seats. Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) secured 10 seats whereas Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP) had 5 seats to its title. Congress, alternatively, managed to safe just one seat. Meanwhile, in 2014, the Narendra Modi-led celebration gained an enormous 71 seats within the state. The SP gained 5 seats, Congress gained two seats, others gained two seats and the BSP didn’t win any seats.
The BJP is hopeful of repeating the success of the final two normal elections within the Hindi heartland state of Uttar Pradesh. Very lately, the saffron celebration additionally emerged victorious within the Rajya Sabha polls performed within the state because it managed to seize eight out of the ten seats on which polling occurred. The opposition SP took away two seats.
The state has a complete of 80 constituencies. Of these, 63 are unreserved seats whereas 17 seats are reserved for the SC candidates. The key constituencies to be careful for within the state are Varanasi, Rae Bareli, Lucknow, and Amethi.
All eyes can be on the Varanasi seat — which is the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — the place Congress and BJP are set to place up a powerful present. Recently, Congress and SP introduced a seat-sharing pact for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh — underneath which Congress will contest Varanasi, Rae Bareli and Amethi seats. Under the pact, the grand previous celebration will struggle on 17 seats whereas the Akhilesh Yadav-led celebration and different INDIA bloc allies will contest on 63 seats.
As the state gears up for one more electoral battle, the eye can be on whether or not Congress bastions of Rae Bareli and Amethi will get a Gandhi contender this time or not. The constituency of Rae Bareli was gained by former Congress president Sonia Gandhi 5 consecutive occasions, nonetheless, she determined to not contest once more and has now been elected to the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. Since her transfer, speculations have been rife that her daughter and celebration normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi could make her electoral debut from the seat this yr.
Political events have already begun asserting their candidates for the final elections. BJP has to this point launched two lists of candidates. Congress has additionally launched two lists of candidates for the polls. Meanwhile, the Election Commission on March 14 uploaded knowledge on electoral bonds on its web site as acquired from SBI. Future Gaming and Hotel Services and Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd have been among the many prime donors to political events.
Various petitions have been filed earlier than the highest courtroom difficult amendments made to completely different statutes by means of the Finance Act 2017 and Finance Act 2016 on the bottom that they’ve opened doorways to limitless, unchecked funding of political events.
