PM Modes Chairs Cabinet Meet; Directs ministers to draw up a 100-day agenda for the next term
Prime Minister Modi chaired a Cabinet meeting a day after the Election Commission announced the full schedule for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, which will be conducted in seven phases.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: A day after the Election Commission announced the dates for the elections Lok Sabha polls 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi On Sunday chairman A Cabinet meeting in the national capital New Delhi, and instructed his ministers to draw up a road map for the first 100 days and the next five years of the new government.
Modes– who, according to popular surveys before the elections, is likely to return as prime minister for a third term – told ministers in his cabinet to hold meetings with secretaries and other officials of their respective ministries to discuss how the agenda for the first 100 days would expired. and can be better implemented in the next five years, sources said, according to a PTI report.
The Cabinet meeting took place a day after the poll panel announced the full schedule for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, which will be held in seven phases over a period of nearly two months from April 19 to June 1, 2024.
The votes will be counted on June 4 and the results will be announced on the same day, the European Championship announced on Saturday.
LS poll dates announced
During the meeting, Prime Minister Modi’s office also initiated the process of announcing the dates of the seven-phase parliamentary elections by sending the Election Commission’s recommendation to President Droupadi Murmu.
The first notification will be on March 20 for the first phase of polls on April 19 on 102 seats. The nomination process starts for a particular phase with the issuance of the notification.
Action plan ‘Viksit Bharat: 2047’
Earlier this month, on March 3, Prime Minister Modi and his council of ministers had brainstormed the vision document for ‘Viksit Bharat: 2047’ and a detailed action plan for the next five years.
The daylong Council meeting debated a 100-day agenda for immediate steps to be taken after a new government is formed in June.
According to sources, the roadmap for ‘Viksit Bharat’ was the result of over two years of intensive preparation and included a ‘whole of government’ approach involving all ministries and extensive consultations with state governments, academia, industrial bodies, civil society, scientific organizations and the mobilization of young people for input.
“More than 2,700 meetings, workshops and seminars have been held at various levels. Suggestions were received from over 20 lakh youth,” an official said.
Lok Sabha polls announced
The Election Commission of India on Saturday announced the dates for the Lok Sabha and four state Assembly elections.
The general elections to 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases from April 19, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced.
The counting will take place on June 4 and the results will be announced on the same day.
Nearly 97 crore voters will be eligible to vote for 543 Lok Sabha constituencies across the country. With the announcement of dates, the moral code of conduct comes into effect immediately.
(With input from agencies)