Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Dates To Be Announced Tomorrow At 3 pm

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Dates: The Election Commission of India will announce dates for the much-anticipated Lok Sabha Elections 2024 on Saturday, reports said. The news broke out minutes after the newly appointed election commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and S.S. Sandhu took charge and held a 45-minute-long key meeting with election commission officers, engaged in making arrangements for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

The reports said that Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, along with commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and S.S. Sandhu will do a press conference at 3 pm to announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections 2024.

Sharing the schedule for a press conference, the Election Commission in a post on X said, "Press Conference by Election Commission to announce the schedule for GeneralElections2024 & some State Assemblies will be held at 3 pm tomorrow ie Saturday, 16th March. It will be live streamed on social media platforms of the ECI".

The reports said Lok Sabha elections for 543 seats are likely to be held in 7 to 8 phases and the Model Code of Conduct will come into force with the announcement of election dates.

It is expected that the Election body may also conduct assembly elections for four states Arunachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim along with the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

A few media reports also suggested that elections in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, union territories with the presidential rule, could also go under polling along with the Lok Sabha elections. State parties like the National Conference (NC) and People's Democratic Party (PDP) have been continuously demanding to conduct elections in the valley.

Earlier, while reviewing the petition to restore the statehoodship, the Supreme Court had also directed the Elections Commission to get the assembly elections done by September 30 as a first step towards the restoration of statehood in Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.