Indian General Elections 2009-Special Section

ELECTION NEWS

Indian General Elections will be held in five phases to constitute the 15th Lok Sabha. Phase 1 will be on 16th April, 2009 (Thursday). Followed by 23rd April, 2009 (Thursday), 30th April,2009 (Thursday), 7th May, 2009 (Thursday). Phase 5 polling will be on the 13th May, 2009 (Wednesday). Counting will take place on the 16th of May, 2009 and is expected to be completed on the same day.

At present in India there are more than 1000 parties

• 7 National Parties namely, Bhartiya Janata Party , Bahujan Samaj Party , Communist Party of India , Communist Party of India ( Marxist), Indian National Congress , Nationalist Congress Party and Rashtriya Janta Dal.

• 40 State Parties .

• 975 Registered Unrecognised Parties.

Consequent on the announcement of the Schedule for the General Elections through this Press Note, the Model Code of Conduct for the Guidance of Political Parties and Candidates comes into operation with immediate effect from today itself in the entire country.

Election Commission releases guidelines on covering of election campaign... Click here


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