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24 Uttarakhand villages won't have polling booths for Lok Sabha elections 2024. These villages have been abandoned for years and are designated as 'uninhabited villages' by the State Migration Commission. 

The Karnataka BJP lodged a complaint with the chief electoral officer in relation to former Speaker Ramesh Kumar using unparliamentary words during election campaign.  

Kerala chief electoral officer Teeka Ram Meena said 22,640 security personnel would be on duty in Kerala on Lok Sabha election counting day. Meena said that there would be 29 counting locations, including postal ballots and EVMs. 

A bomb threat to the office of Tamil Nadu chief electoral officer Satyabrata Sahoo sent Chennai police in a frenzy. However, they soon discovered that the threat was a hoax. 
 

Kerala’s Chief Electoral Officer, Teeka Ram Meena, spoke to the media on Saturday saying that people in Kerala would have to wait a little while longer to get the Lok Sabha results. He said that it might take about 9-10 hours to get the final result.

Kerala chief electoral officer Teeka Ram Meena asked Kannur district collector to take action against the presiding officer, micro-observer and first polling officer
 

Kerala's director general of police Lokanath Behera had submitted a report to the chief electoral officer Teeka Ram Meena, based on the information received from Intelligence ADGP TK Vinod Kumar. In the letter, the DGP stated that the provision of the Representation of the People Act was violated in the case regarding postal ballots.
 

In a letter to Chief Election Commissioner, TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu alleged that the chief electoral officer of Andhra Pradesh is spreading misinformation and exceeding his jurisdiction. He also said that the CEO warned ADG (Intelligence) not to report to the chief minister.

In the first three hours till 11 am., 30.62 per cent voting was recorded, Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer Satyabrata Sahoo told the media here.

Karnataka chief electoral officer Sanjiv Kumar held a presser on Wednesday evening, a day ahead of the first phase of polling in the state. As many as 30,164 polling booths have been set up across the fourteen constituencies, 1,54,262 polling staff will be in attendance and as many as 40,000 police personnel will be in charge of security across the fourteen constituencies.

LDF Kasaragod constituency secretary and MLA TV Rajesh forwarded the complaint to the chief electoral officer Dr Sajith Babu. According to the complaint, UDF candidate Rajmohan Unnithan demeaned the Supreme Court verdict of September 28 on Sabarimala. In a speech Unnithan said that the LDF government is against believers.

 

Chief electoral officer Teeka Ram Meena has accused NDA candidate Suresh Gopi from Thrissur of violating the model code of conduct. He had earlier stated that the issue of women entering the Sabarimala shrine cannot be used during election campaigns
 

Here is the latest update on EVMs, timings of voting and closure dates for campaigns in Telangana, which will to polls on April 11.

Nizamabad constituency is awaiting confirmation from the Election Commission of India regarding going back to ballot papers for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections where 185 candidates will run the election race

The Arunachal Pradesh chief electoral officer added that the Election Commission will officially declare the two BJP candidates as having won without a contest only after the last date of withdrawal of nomination papers on March 28