By – Prakarsh Kastwar
Schedule for the Madhya Pradesh elections: This year, there are Assembly elections in five states, including Madhya Pradesh.
Schedule of the Madhya Pradesh elections: The schedule for the upcoming elections in Madhya Pradesh was released by the Indian Election Commission on Monday.
The elections in Madhya Pradesh would be conducted in a single phase, according to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar. Here you can follow complete poll coverage.
On October 13, notice of the election will be released, starting the process. The candidate’s final day to receive nominations is October 20. On October 21, their candidacy will be reviewed.
| Issue of notification | October 13 |
| Last date of nomination | October 20 |
| Scrutiny of nomination | October 21 |
| Last date of withdrawal of candidature | October 23 |
| Date of polls | November 17 |
| Counting of votes | December 3 |
Candidates have until October 23 to resign their candidacy in accordance with electoral commission regulations.
The election day is November 17. On December 3, the election results will be made public.
Madhya Pradesh is one of five states holding Assembly elections this year, preparing for the final significant poll before the 2024 presidential election.
Additionally, elections will be place in Mizoram, Telangana, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh. Madhya Pradesh is governed by the BJP, while Telangana is governed by the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). In Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, the Congress is in charge, while the Mizo National Front is in charge of the northeastern state.
After 22 MPs resigned, the Congress won the Madhya Pradesh elections in 2018, but the BJP took over in March 2020.
In this state, where Shivraj Singh Chouhan is the leader of the government, the BJP has been in power since 2003 (except from the 18 months between 2018 and 2020). One of the larger states to send 29 representatives to the Lok Sabha is Madhya Pradesh.
The approaching assembly elections will not only define the political landscape at the state level but are also likely to have consequences at the national level given that the 2024 Lok Sabha elections are only a few months away. High-stakes confrontations are anticipated in a number of areas, thus political parties have been aggressively preparing for these elections.