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Election Commission: In view of the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the assembly elections of five states to be held later this year, the Election Commission has started preparations. Before any election, the Election Commission prepares at every level.
On Thursday (June 8), sources in the news agency PTI said that the Election Commission is preparing for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the assembly elections of five states to be held later this year. For this, the Election Commission has started the first level checking of EVMs and paper trail machines across the country in a phased manner. The Commission said that the First Level Checking (FLC) is part of the process.
The Election Commission told that this process is a national level exercise to be done before the elections. An Election Commission official said that the FLC will be held across the country in a phased manner, including all Assembly/Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala. The officer also replied on the mock poll being held in Wayanad Lok Sabha seat of Kerala. The Wayanad Lok Sabha seat fell vacant after the disqualification of former Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
‘Modi surname’ comment
Actually, Rahul Gandhi was disqualified after being convicted in a criminal defamation case regarding the ‘Modi surname’ remark. Months after Rahul was disqualified, the Election Commission has started the process of holding a bypoll to the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat.
By-elections to be held here
The Election Commission official said that it issues a calendar for such an exercise and the Chief Electoral Officers of the states are instructed to follow it. The official said that FLCs will also be in Rajasthan, Mizoram, five polling states. Bypolls are to be held in Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh as well as assembly and parliamentary seats.
‘Will remove deficiencies in EVM’
Let us inform that the Lok Sabha seats of Wayanad, Pune and Chandrapur (Maharashtra), Ghazipur (Uttar Pradesh) and Ambala (Haryana) have become vacant. Rahul Gandhi’s petition to stay the conviction and sentence is pending in the Gujarat High Court. Engineers from BEL and ECIL will rectify the defects in the EVMs during the FLC.
Apart from this, EVM machines and paper trail machines are checked. Damaged machines are repaired or the machines are sent back to the manufacturers for repair. Along with this, a mock poll is also organized to test the machines in the presence of representatives of political parties.
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