Finance
The nomination process for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections scheduled on April 19 begins on today (Wednesday).
Voting in 102 Lok Sabha seats distributed across 17 states and 4 union territories will take place in the first phase.
March 27 is the deadline for submitting nominations for the first phase. The deadline for withdrawing from consideration is March 30. The nomination papers will be examined on March 28. The Election Commission has announced that the vote counting will occur on June 4.
The first phase will be held in 39 seats of Tamil Nadu, 12 seats of Rajasthan, eight seats of Uttar Pradesh, six seats of Madhya Pradesh, five seats each in Uttarakhand, Assam and Maharashtra, four seats of Bihar, three seats of West Bengal, two seats each in Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya and one seat each in Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, J&K, Lakshadweep and Puducherry.
Eight parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh — Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Nagina (SC), Moradabad, Rampur and Pilibhit — will vote in the first phase.
