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 Indian General Elections 2024: World's biggest democratic festival Elections are the cornerstone of any democracy. As India is the largest democracy in the world, it is all set to witness the largest democratic elections in 2024. General elections in India will be conducted for 543 Lok Sabha seats over April, May, and June. It will be held in 7 phases with phase 1 voting on 19 April and phase 7 on 1st June. More than 90 crore Indians are eligible to vote in these elections.  In this article, all about General Elections 2024 is explained.  General Elections 2024 General elections are held in India every five years to elect 543 members for Lok Sabha. Lok Sabha is the lower house of the Indian parliament. It is also known as the House of the People. India follows the first-past-the-post system of polling where the party that gets the maximum number of votes wins and forms government.  Who is running? India follows a multi-party system. There are more than 2500 politica...

 "My husband left me immediately upon delivery of my third baby girl; He had always wanted a boy"- Veerwati  Veerwati with her daughter at Phagwara Bus Stand in Punjab  I see two Indias in India; One, where artists like Nora Fatehi have the privilege to talk about Feminism, and the other, where mothers like ' Veerwati' toil day and night just to earn a meager living. Today, where the world talks about ' Alpha males' and ' Alpha females', there is a country within the country of India where these concepts fail to exist.  A Dialogue with Veerwati "You have a family of four. How do you manage to take care of the finances in addition to being a lactating mother?", this was the first question I asked ' Veerwati' who hails from Shahjahanpur in UP  and had come to Punjab ten years ago in search of better opportunities with her husband. " I sometimes do petty jobs at Dana Mandi in Phagwara and during the off-season, I beg here with all m...