Lok Sabha elections: Day before vote counting, EC to hold press conference on June 3
The Hindu
The Election Commission of India will hold a press conference on June 3, a day before the counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha polls. Till the 2019 parliamentary polls, deputy election commissioners used to hold media briefings after each phase of polls, but the practice has been done away with.
The Election Commission will hold a press conference on June 3, a day before the counting of votes polled in the Lok Sabha elections 2024. This likely will be the first time in India’s electoral history that the poll panel has convened a presser on the conclusion of an election.
The press conference will be held in New Delhi at 12.30 p.m.
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The seven-phase elections which began on April 19 concluded on June 1.
"Press conference by Election Commission of India on General Elections 2024," the media invite by the EC said.
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