Lok Sabha elections in March-April this year?

January 24, 2018 14:23

We had reported recently that the next Lok Sabha elections, due in April-May 2019, will be advanced to December this year along with some 20 state assembly polls.

Rajesh Jain, technology entrepreneur behind Niti Central and whose political venture Niti Digital was part of Narendra Modi's 2014 election campaign, writes in nayidisha.com that the Lok Sabha elections could actually happen in the next 100 days.

To buttress his belief, Jain offers six reasons and six inferences, here.

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