New Delhi: The Election Commission will announce the schedule for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls at 10.30 am on Wednesday.
As per reports, general elections 2014 will be conducted in five to seven phases, with the first phase of polling to be held around April 10.
The dates would be declared by Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath along with iElection Commissioners H S Brahma and Dr Nasim Zaidi at a press co Vigyan Bhavan. The venue has been changed from the usual Nirvachan Sadan owing to space constraints at the EC headquarters.
The elections would see more than 81 crore voters exercise their ballot.
The Model Code of Conduct for governments and political parties will
come into force with immediate effect after the poll dates are
announced.
Reports further said that the counting of votes would be held around May 15. The term of the current Lok Sabha expires on June 1 and the new House has to be constituted by May 31.
The EC will also announce poll dates to elect new assemblies in Andhra Pradesh, including the regions comprising Telangana, Odisha and Sikkim.
An important feature of the polls would be the introduction of paper trail system for electronic voting in some constituencies on a trial basis.
Also, the EC has issued guidelines to political parties asking them to explain the rationale of financing the promises they make in their election manifestos. The guidelines that followed Supreme Court directions in this regard have now been made part of the Model Code.
Another first in the Lok Sabha elections will be the introduction of "None of the Above" (NOTA) option in voting, which came into vogue in the assembly elections a few months ago.
From the coming elections, candidates in a parliamentary constituency in bigger states can spend up to Rs 70 lakh on their campaign, up from Rs 40 lakh in 2011. In the 2009 elections, it was Rs 25 lakh.
source: http://zeenews.india.com
As per reports, general elections 2014 will be conducted in five to seven phases, with the first phase of polling to be held around April 10.
The dates would be declared by Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath along with iElection Commissioners H S Brahma and Dr Nasim Zaidi at a press co Vigyan Bhavan. The venue has been changed from the usual Nirvachan Sadan owing to space constraints at the EC headquarters.
The elections would see more than 81 crore voters exercise their ballot.
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Reports further said that the counting of votes would be held around May 15. The term of the current Lok Sabha expires on June 1 and the new House has to be constituted by May 31.
The EC will also announce poll dates to elect new assemblies in Andhra Pradesh, including the regions comprising Telangana, Odisha and Sikkim.
An important feature of the polls would be the introduction of paper trail system for electronic voting in some constituencies on a trial basis.
Also, the EC has issued guidelines to political parties asking them to explain the rationale of financing the promises they make in their election manifestos. The guidelines that followed Supreme Court directions in this regard have now been made part of the Model Code.
Another first in the Lok Sabha elections will be the introduction of "None of the Above" (NOTA) option in voting, which came into vogue in the assembly elections a few months ago.
From the coming elections, candidates in a parliamentary constituency in bigger states can spend up to Rs 70 lakh on their campaign, up from Rs 40 lakh in 2011. In the 2009 elections, it was Rs 25 lakh.
source: http://zeenews.india.com