Results are expected to become clear before dusk on June 4.
BENGALURU – The mammoth process of counting the votes cast in India’s general election kicked off at 8am local time on June 4.
The voter turnout of 66.4 per cent in the 2024 polls is one percentage point lower than in the previous national parliamentary election held in 2019. Mr Kumar said there had been less violence, less noise, less clutter and fewer inducements of cash and gifts in the 2024 election because of the Election Commission of India’s prompt action.
The participants then wrote to all the polling officers, asking them to ensure free, fair and accountable counting, amid questions on the “neutrality and fairness of the ECI”. Postal votes have become a point of contention after a few recent instances of the BJP allegedly manipulating these in state elections to influence close contests. Election guidelines from 1961 said the postal ballots were to be counted before EVMs, but in 2019, the ECI allowed EVM counting to begin at any time.
He wrote in The Indian Express on June 1 that unlike in the 2014 and 2019 elections, where there was a wave of support for Mr Modi, the 2024 election showed “the return of normal politics” and that “everyday issues and livelihood concerns could no longer be bottled up”.
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