LIVE: Election Commission To Announce Lok Sabha Poll Schedule At 3 PM Today

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The Election Commission will announce the schedule of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls this afternoon. In a post on X, the poll body said the dates for the general and some state assembly elections will be announced at 3 pm today.



The tenure of the present Lok Sabha ends on June 16 and a new House will have to be constituted before that. The tenure of Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, and Odisha assemblies will also end in June.



Nearly 97 crore people are eligible to vote in the upcoming polls.



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In the last parliamentary polls, the BJP, seeking a third consecutive term this time, won 303 seats, while the Congress got 52 seats. It could not muster enough numbers to claim the position of Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.



The upcoming polls are extremely crucial for the Opposition bloc INDIA, fighting to stop the BJP's run.



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