"Largest Electoral Exercise Ever": Shashi Tharoor On Lok Sabha Polls 2024
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Shashi Tharoor said that a total of 96.8 crore people have registered to vote. However, the most significant fact is that out of these, 23 crore people between the age of 18-29 will be voting.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in the country, Congress' Lok Sabha candidate from Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala, Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday collaborated with India's International Movement to Unite Nations (IIMUN) and launched their campaign aimed at first-time voters.
He took to social media platform X and wrote, "India, the world's largest democracy -- as we all wish it to remain! -- goes to elections starting next month."
"This election will be the largest electoral exercise ever conducted in the world. Citizens will cast their vote across 543 constituencies in 7 phases at over 10.5 lakh polling stations to elect the 18th Lok Sabha. This exercise will employ 1.5 crore polling officials and security staff, 55 lakh EVMs, and 4 lakh vehicles," he further stated on X.
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PM Modi also offered the Congress and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha congratulations for their win in the election in that state.
However, Salman who got married on Friday night will miss his own wedding reception, scheduled for November 26 in Meerut, due to the district ban imposed just a day before the 'nikah' (wedding).
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Meanwhile, as the dust settles after the counting of votes, the identity of the victor of the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election is settled, and the focus now will be on the next Chief Minister.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in January and released on bail in June.
Jharkhand Elections Results 2024: JMM chief Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana are parents to two boys. Sharing a picture of his two sons, he wrote, "My strength."
Overall, the BJP has not only retained the three seats it won in 2022 but also flipped two others - Kundarki and Katehari - while also picking up a sixth from allies NISHAD Party.
Fahad Ahmed, a candidate of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP faction, is currently trailing Sana Malik, nominee of Ajit Pawar's NCP, by over 3,000 votes and the counting is nearing completion.