Team News Riveting
New Delhi, June 3
India has created a world record with 64.2 crore voters, including 31.2 crore women, turning up to exercise their franchise in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections 2024.
The poll panel headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar on Monday held a press conference and thanked the voters for participating in a large number in the festival of democracy. A standing ovation was also given by the Commission to all voters especially Women Voters who participated enthusiastically in the elections.
Kumar said seizures of Rs 10,000 crore, including cash, freebies, drugs and liquor, were also made during election. “In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, cash, freebies, drugs and liquor worth Rs 3,500 crore were seized,” he said.
Addressing a press briefing, he said over 68,000 monitoring teams and 1.5 crore polling and security personnel were involved in the world’s largest electoral exercise.
“India created a world record with 64.2 crore voters, including 31.2 crore women, participating in the Lok Sabha elections this year,” the CEC said.
Kumar said that nearly four lakh vehicles, 135 special trains and 1,692 air sorties were used for conducting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. “Only 39 repolls took place in the 2024 general elections as against 540 repolls in 2019,” he said.
The CEC further said that Jammu and Kashmir recorded its highest turnout in four decades at 58.58 per cent overall and 51.05 per cent in the Valley.
