Election Commission To Announce Schedule For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Tomorrow

The Election Commission of India (ECI) will announce the dates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on Saturday (16 March).

Apart from Lok Sabha polls, the poll panel will also announce the dates of elections for some state Assemblies.

"Press Conference by Election Commission to announce schedule for General Elections 2024 & some State Assemblies will be held at 3 pm tomorrow ie Saturday, 16th March. It will livestreamed on social media platforms of the ECI," the poll panel said in a post on X on Friday (15 March).

The Model Code of Conduct will come into force from the time the dates are announced.

In 2019, the General elections were held over seven phases from April 11 to April 19, with results declared four days later.

The four states likely to vote in April/May are Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim, with Maharashtra, Haryana, and Jharkhand scheduled to vote later this year. 

Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, are also likely to go to polls in line with a Supreme Court order directing the conduct of Assembly polls by 30 September.

The poll panel's announcement of the press conference comes a day after two new Election Commissioners were inducted, after the retirement of Anup Chandra Pandey in February and Arun Goel's resignation last week.

Former IAS officers Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu have been named to the panel.

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