The Election Commission of India will be announcing the schedule for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on Saturday, a spokesperson of the election body said.
The schedule will be announced during a press conference at 3pm on Saturday and it will be livestreamed on all social media platforms of the ECI, it said on X. The announcement comes soon after the two new election commissioners assumed charge on Friday.
The newly formed high-power panel chaired by the prime minister chose former bureaucrats Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu as new election commissioners, and they assumed charge on Friday.
The vacancies had come up in the Election Commission after the retirement of Anup Chandra Pandey on February 14 and the sudden resignation of Arun Goel on March 8.
Welcoming them, CEC Rajiv Kumar spoke about the significance of their joining at a historic point when the Election Commission is all set to conduct Lok Sabha elections.
-with PTI inputs.
