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    The Election Commission of India is responsible for conducting free and fair elections in India. It prepares voter lists, decides election schedules, scrutinizes candidate applications, recognizes political parties, and resolves election disputes. Key responsibilities include maintaining accurate voter lists, determining election dates, verifying candidate eligibility, granting official status to political parties, and settling any electoral issues. The entire election process from announcing dates to declaring results is managed by the Election Commission of India.

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    The Election Commission of India is responsible for conducting free and fair elections in India. It prepares voter lists, decides election schedules, scrutinizes candidate applications, recognizes political parties, and resolves election disputes. Key responsibilities include maintaining accurate voter lists, determining election dates, verifying candidate eligibility, granting official status to political parties, and settling any electoral issues. The entire election process from announcing dates to declaring results is managed by the Election Commission of India.

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    FUNCTIONS OF ELECTION COMMISSION

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    The Election Commission of India is responsible for conducting free and fair elections in India. It prepares voter lists, decides election schedules, scrutinizes candidate applications, recognizes political parties, and resolves election disputes. Key responsibilities include maintaining accurate voter lists, determining election dates, verifying candidate eligibility, granting official status to political parties, and settling any electoral issues. The entire election process from announcing dates to declaring results is managed by the Election Commission of India.

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    FUNCTIONS OF ELECTION

    COMMISSION
    BY LAVI
    JAIN
    Introduction

     THE ENTIRE PROCESS OF


    ELECTIONS FROM DECLARING
    THE DATE OF THE ELECTIONS
    TO THE DECLARATION OF
    RESULTS IS CARRIED OUT
    UNDER THE DIRECTION AND
    CONTROL OF ELECTION
    COMMISSION.
    1) PREPARING THE VOTER’S LIST
    .
     EVERY INDIAN CITIZEN WHO HAS COMPLETED 18 YEARS OF AGE HAS A
    RIGHT TO VOTE .

     TO EXERCISE THE RIGHT TO VOTE , CITIZEN’S NAME MUST BE IN THE


    VOTERS LIST.

     IT IS THE RESPNSIBILITY OF THE ELECTION COMMISSION TO PREPARE THE


    VOTER’S LIST AND INCLUDE THE NAMES OF NEW VOTERS .

     THE ELECTION COMMISSION HAS THE AUTHORITYTO ISSUE IDENTITY


    CARDS TO THE VOTERS.
    2) DECIDE THE TIMETABLE AND THE
    PROGRAMME OF ELECTIONS

    THE CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS IS ENTIRELY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF


    THE ELECTION COMMISSION .

    THE ELECTION COMMISSION DECIDES WHEN TO STAGE TO HOLD


    ELECTIONS IN EVERY STATE.
    3) SCRUTINITY OF THE
    APPLICATION OF CANDIDATES

     AFTER THE ELECTION DATES ARE DECLARED , EVERY


    POLITICAL PARTY SELECTS THE CANDIDATES TO CONTEST
    ELECTIONS .
     SOME CANDIDATES CONTEST THE ELECTIONS
    INDEPENDENTLY WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF ANY POLITICAL
    PARTY .
     CANDIDATES OF POLITICAL PARTIES AS WELL AS
    INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES HAVE TO FILL THE
    APPLICATIONS WHICH INCLUDE THE INFORMATION ABOUT
    THEIR OWN SELF .
     THE ELECTION COMMISSION SCRUTINISES ALL
    THEAPPLICATIONS AND ALLOWS THE ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES
    TO CONTEST THE ELECTIONS .
    4)GIVE RECOGNITION TO POLIICAL
    PARTIES
     WE HAVE A MULTIPARTY SYSTEM IN OUR COUNTRY.

     NEW PARTIES CONTINUE TO BE FORMED.

     SPLIT IN THE PARTIES RESULTS IN THE FORMATION OF NEW PARTIES .

     ALL POLTICAL PARTIES ARE REQUIRED TO BE RECOGNISED BY THE ELECTION


    COMMISSION .

     ELECTION COMMISSION ALSO HAS A RIGHT TO DERECOGNISE ANY


    POLITICAL PARTY.

     THE ELECTION COMMISSION ALSO ALLOTS ELECTION SYMBOLS TO THE


    POLITICAL PARTIES.
    5) TO RESOLVE ANY DISPUTES
    RELATING TO ELECTIONS
     THE ELECTION COMMISSION HAS THE REPOSIBILITY OF RESOLVING
    ANY DISPUTES THAT MAY ARISE REGARDING ELECTIONS.

     ACCORDING TO DECALRE ANY CANDIDATE AS DISQUALIFIED OR


    CONDUCT RE-ELECTION IN A PARTICULAR CONSTITUENCY IS THE
    RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ELECTION COMMISSION.
    FIRST VOTER OF INDIA!

    SHAM SHARAN NEGI


    FROM HIMACHAL PRADESH
    WAS THE FIRST VOTER OF
    INDIA . HE EXERCISED HIS
    RIGHT TO VOTE ON 25TH
    OCTOBER 1951 IN LOKSABHA
    ELECTIONS.

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