NEW DELHI: Setting the ball in movement to elect the 18th Lok Sabha and 4 state assemblies, Election Fee on Saturday introduced seven-phase polls that can stretch for one-and-a-half-months, between April 19 and June 1, adopted by counting for all seats on June 4. These would be the longest normal elections because the polls of 1951-52 that lasted greater than 4 months.PM Narendra Modi will probably be looking for a 3rd straight time period based mostly on the govt.’s “good track record” of the previous 10 years and on BJP having delivered on its manifesto guarantees, together with nullification of Article 370 in J&Okay, Ram temple development in Ayodhya and implementation of CAA.For the opposition, it’s a ‘do or die’ battle after tasting defeat prior to now two elections.Modi is taken into account the favorite within the electoral battle spanning 44 days, and a 3rd consecutive time period will assist him equal the document of first PM Jawaharlal Nehru, and sharpen the combat between contrasting visions – one espoused by the PM and the second being championed by his opponents who’ve accused him of subverting the spirit of the Structure.Chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar, flanked by new election commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu at a press convention right here, declared that 102 parliamentary constituencies (PCs) will vote within the first part on April 19, 89 in Part 2 on April 26, 94 in Part 3 on Might 7, 96 in Part 4 on Might 13, 49 in Part 5 on Might 20, and 57 every in Part 6 on Might 25 and Part 7 on June 1.With this, mannequin code of conduct has come into instant impact throughout the nation.Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Polls to be held in 7 phases from April 19; Counting of votes on June 4Assembly elections in 4 states – Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim – will comply with the identical schedule because the Lok Sabha polls, with the constituent meeting segments voting on the identical say because the parliamentary constituency, chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar introduced Saturday. Although meeting polls in Jammu and Kashmir are additionally due, with Supreme Courtroom directing Election Fee to carry them no later than Sept 30, Kumar mentioned they are going to be held solely after the Lok Sabha polls.He defined that simultaneous polls would have required an extra 450-500 corporations, or as much as 50,000 personnel, to safe all candidates throughout 90 meeting seats. “That many forces are not available (as of now) but EC stands committed to holding J&K poll at the earliest,” he mentioned.TOI had on Saturday reported that elections in Jammu and Kashmir wouldn’t be clubbed with normal elections resulting from causes associated to power logistics, given {that a} far bigger variety of candidates have to be given safety.Polls in Jammu and Kashmir will probably be held over 5 phases, with every constituency voting in a special part. Not like final time, when polling in terror-hit Anantnag parliamentary constituency, in a primary, was held over three phases, no such association was necessitated this time.Nevertheless, the same association has been adopted for Outer Manipur (ST) parliamentary seat comprising largely hill areas of the state that has seen intermittent ethnic violence since Might final 12 months. Of the entire 28 meeting segments, 15 will witness polling on April 19 and the remaining 13 on April 26. Folks residing in aid camps in violence-hit Manipur will probably be allowed to vote from polling stations arrange within the camp itself, the CEC mentioned.West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh will vote in all seven phases. Election Fee had earlier requisitioned the biggest chunk of 900 corporations of central forces, comprising round 90,000 personnel, for deployment in ballot violence-prone Bengal. Kumar mentioned as per a observe launched forward of polls to 5 states together with Bengal in 2021, there will probably be randomisation of state police and central forces, and their deployment determined by a committee comprising the chief electoral officer, state police nodal officer and state CAPF coordinator, to make sure their optimum and efficient utilisation within the curiosity of free and truthful polls.Almost 96.8 crore residents are eligible to vote at a complete 10.5 lakh polling stations throughout the nation. The citizens consists of 49.7 crore male voters and 47.1 crore voters. Girls voters exceed males in a dozen states/UTs. There are 21.5 crore voters within the 18-29 age group, of which 1.8 crore are within the 18-19 years.Chief election commissioner appealed to voters to assist higher the 67% voter turnout recorded in 2019. He mentioned EC’s intention was to carry peaceable, inducement-free and neutral polls with near-zero repolls.There will probably be a 24×7 built-in management room in each district, with a senior officer assigned to observe feeds from TV, social media, webcasting, 1950 voter helpline, grievances portal and cVIGIL app in actual time. There will probably be drone-based checks at borders, surveillance of chartered flights and bar on motion of ATM money after sundown, as a part of measures to test motion of unlawful money, liquor, medicine and freebies.Election Fee is apprehensive of unlawful money making an enormous comeback in ballot funding in view of the scrapping of electoral bonds. It has alerted all regulation enforcement and intelligence companies to tighten surveillance.EC will probably be carefully watching out for any situations of mannequin code violations, together with use of intemperate language in opposition to rivals and hate speeches, significantly by star campaigners, in addition to faux information and false narratives. It has deployed 2,100 observers to behave as its eyes and ears and report any breaches.
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