New Delhi : The Election Commission of India is likely to announce the dates for the Lok Sabha elections in the first week of March. The term of the current Lok Sabha ends on June 3.As sources report says  that the Election Commission is going to  take a decision on the number of phases and the months in which elections would take place, The decision on the phases would be taken keeping in mind the availability of security forces and other requirements. They also said that the EC would most probably announce the 2019 Lok Sabha elections’ schedule in the first week of March.

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The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly was dissolved in November 2018, the poll panel is bound to hold fresh elections there by May 2019. So, the EC may also hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir along with the 2019 LS polls. However, it all depends on the complex security situation in the state. Itis a probability that the Election Commission may go by conducting  Elections in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, and Sikkim along with the Lok Sabha elections.

In 2014, the EC had declared the election schedule on March 5. The electoral exercise had taken place in nine phases and was spread across April and May.The term of the Sikkim Assembly concludes on May 27, 2019. The terms of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Arunachal Pradesh Assemblies end on June 18, June 11 and June 1 respectively.

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