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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 544 Constituencies To Go For Polling Instead Of 543, Here Is How?

Lok Sabha Elections 2024

The Election commission of India on Saturday announced the schedule for the much-anticipated Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Starting on April 19,  the polls will be conducted in seven phases.

The counting of votes will take place on June 4. However, when the Election Commission announced the schedule, the constituencies added up to 544 instead of the 543 Lok Sabha seats. This, however, doesnโ€™t mean that a new constituency has been added.

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Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar explained that one of the two constituencies in Manipur, which is under unrest since May 2023 will vote in two phases, which took the overall Lok Sabha seats tally to 544. The elections for two Lok Sabha seats in the state will be held in two phases on April 19 and 26. Inner Manipur and some segments of Outer Manipur will vote in Phase 1 on April 19 and in Phase 2 on April 26, the remaining segments of Outer Manipur will vote again.

Voting on one seat will be held twice due to displacement in the state that remained gripped by recurring bouts of violence since ethnic clashes between the two communities, reported NDTV.

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Political Stir Over Meeting Of CM And Former CMs In Madhya Pradesh

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Bhopal: Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh sat on a Dharna one km away from chief ministerโ€™s office on Friday after CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan allegedly cancelled their meeting to discuss issue of displacement of villagers due to the Tame Irrigation project.

The political drama began when the photos and videos of a meeting of Chouhan with MP Congress Committee president Kamal Nath at the state hangar in Bhopal went viral on social media.

After meeting with the CM, Kamal Nath joined the protest with Digvijaya Singh. Nath also got angry on media persons for asking questions on the purpose of his meeting with the CM.

Digvijaya Singh said he sought a time to meet the chief minister to discuss the matter of compensation against the displacement of villagers after five thousand hectares of land submerged due to the Tame irrigation project of Suthalia of Rajgarh, Bhopal and Vidisha districts. โ€œMore than 1500 families will be displaced but they are not getting enough compensation,โ€ said Singh.

Singh said the CMโ€™s office gave him time at 11 .15 am on Friday for meeting but he was informed on Thursday that the meeting was cancelled.

Singh said he will reach on time and will stage a protest because the CM has no time to listen to the issues of common people.

However, the meeting was cancelled as the CM went to attend a function in Dewas.

After the video of their meeting went viral on social media, Nath said, โ€œWe met accidentally as I was returning from the Chhindwara and the CM was leaving for Dewas. It was a courtesy meeting.โ€

He further said, โ€œAfter I came to join Dharna, Digvijaya Singh informed me that he was seeking time for the past one-and-a-half months but the CM has no time to listen to him. We will stage protest with villagers who are being displaced without proper compensation.โ€

Later, the CM also said that we were crossing each other at state hangar and it was just a cordial meeting. โ€œI told Digvijaya Singh to come and meet on January 23 but he is more interested in politicising the matter,โ€ Chouhan said.

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