India - Announcement Of General Election Dates

(20 Mar 1996) T/I: 10:30:25
Opposition parties predicted a hung parliament and political instability on Wednesday (20/3), following the announcement that India's first general elections in five years would be held in April and May.
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NEW DELHI, INDIA, 19/3
Exterior BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) office, person leaving.
Exterior election commission.
Media waiting for announcement.
Crowded interior of news conference.
Chief election commissioner, T.N. Seshan (in white) greets election commissioners, Mr. Krishnamurthy and Mr. Gill (with Sikh turban).
Cutaway media.
SOT Seshan saying, This is going to be an unprecedented exercise of 590 million voters...hundreds of police...I am happy to be able to report that we have found the election machinery is ready, absolutely, perfectly complete. We shall try to make it peaceful, violence-free election.
Cutaway media
SOT Seshan answers question about how it is possible to hold election in strife-torn Kashmir: "The conditions have changed for the better." Asked if he could elaborate, he answers no.
Poster for BJP party.
Exterior Congress (I) Party with posters showing Premier Narasimha Rao.
Exterior of Janata Dal Party office.
Exterior Communist Party of India office.
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This is a man we can never forget, perhaps first lion of Indian democracy

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@@vee3541 he was the former Cheif election commissioner of India & who made major reforms in election between 1990 1996.

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The man who would NEVER back down, NEVER compromise. A true lion of a man.

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Father of electoral reforms in india

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An unforgettable man ...

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Now (2024) We need persons like T.N.Seshan as Chief Election Commissioner of India.

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Lion