The Election Commission will hold a press conference on Saturday, March 16, to announce the state assembly schedules for the general elections 2024. This conference will be held tomorrow at 3 pm. It will be livestreamed on ECI's social media platforms. Along with this, electoral registration will also be implemented in the entire country. Let us tell you that two election commissioners have been appointed a day before. Gyanesh Kumar and Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu assumed his post as the new Election Commissioner today. After which, on Friday itself, the three officials of the Election Commission organized a meeting regarding the election programme.
It is being told that 97 crore people will be able to vote in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. On February 8, the Election Commission had released the Special Summary Revision 2024 Report related to voters of all 28 states and 8 union territories. The Election Commission said that 2 crore new voters between 18 to 29 years have been added to the voting list. The number of registered voters has increased by 6 percent compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. At the same time, the Election Commission said that the highest number of 96.88 crore voters in the world are registered to vote in the Lok Sabha elections. Additionally, the gender estimate has also increased from 940 in 2023 to 948 in 2024.