28 January 2009

Lok Sabha Election Dates | General Election India Dates

The next general elections in India will take place in April-May this year, S Y Quraishi, election commissioner of India said in London.

"We, in the Election Commission, have not yet discussed the final dates, but it will be held between April 8 and May 15," Quraishi said after delivering a lecture on 'J&K Elections 2008', at the India House last evening.

The Indian High Commissioner to the UK, Shiv Shanker Mukherjee, was present on the occasion.

General election in India is the largest electoral exercise in the world involving 671 million voters.

Noting that India is the only country in the world to introduce the Electronic Voting Machines at such a large scale, he said the system has ensured that the "secrecy of vote is not compromised."