Elections are expected to be held for the legislative assemblies of Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand in 2024, with the five-year terms of these states coming to an end.
The Election Commission of India, is likely to announce the schedule for upcoming Assembly elections in three states at 3pm today. India’s election authority on Friday morning announced in a release that it would hold a press conference “to announce the schedule for General Election to Legislative Assemblies.” According to the news agency, an invite to the press conference in New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan did not mention the states for which the election schedule would be announced.
Elections are expected to be held for the legislative assemblies of Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand in 2024, with the five-year terms of these states coming to an end. The poll body is also likely to announce the election schedule in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
The terms of the legislative assemblies of Haryana and Maharashtra are set to end on November 3 and November 26, respectively. Meanwhile, the term of the legislative assembly of Jharkhand is scheduled to conclude in January 2025. Additionally, the poll panel aims to conduct assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir before the Supreme Court’s September 30 deadline. If successful, Jammu and Kashmir will see elections after a decade, with the last assembly election held in 2014.
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Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Election
There are 90 Assembly seats in J&K out of which 74 are general constituencies, nine are reserved for ST candidates and seven for SC candidates. The participation of voters in the Lok Sabha polls has already set the stage for a large participation of people in the Assembly elections in J&K.
The Lt Governor-headed administration is faced with the challenges of providing security to all the contestants and also ensuring a level playing field by securing venues for election rallies and campaigns.
J&K came under the Lt. Governor’s rule after 2018 when the BJP pulled out of the PDP-BJP ruling coalition headed by Mehbooba Mufti. On August 5, 2019, Article 370 was abrogated and the state was bifurcated into two UTs of J&K and Ladakh. Centre has promised restoration of statehood after the Assembly elections and the elected government would be in office to attend to issues of development and progress before statehood is restored in J&K.
Irrespective of who wins or loses the Assembly polls in J&K, the very holding of these elections would politically empower the common man as another big celebration of democracy is to be announced by the ECI in the day.
