Photo from the first Lok Sabha elections in the country.
Our country is the largest democratic nation in the world and we are all aware of the importance of elections in democracy. The process of the first Lok Sabha elections in the country began on October 25, 1951 and ended on February 21, 1952. More than 17 million Indian voters participated in this election and proved that the assumption of the British that the Indian society would not be able to fulfill the responsibility of democracy was wrong.
Started in 1951, completed in 1952
Today we tell you some interesting things related to the first parliamentary elections in independent India. The country’s first general elections were held from October 25, 1951 to February 21, 1952. That means that a year had passed between the beginning and the end of the first Lok Sabha elections in India. This was India’s longest election in terms of period. The country’s shortest general election was held in 1980, when voting was completed in just four days. Voting in the first elections lasted more than 4 months.
The largest election in the world was in 1951.
In the Indian general elections held in 1951, around 17 percent of the world’s population was going to vote. The first Lok Sabha election in India was the most important election of that time. During that period, a total of 17 days of voting were held on different dates. Then the Election Commission had established 1,96,084 polling stations across the country.
Sukumar Sen had conducted the first elections.
India’s first chief election commissioner was Sukumar Sen, who conducted independent India’s first general election. The first Lok Sabha was formed in the country on April 17, 1952. Jawaharlal Nehru then became the first elected Prime Minister and then formed his cabinet.
The sequential details of other important events recorded in the history of the country and the world on the date of October 25 are as follows:-
1296: Saint Dnyaneshwar took Samadhi.
1881: Birth of the great Spanish painter, sculptor and multifaceted genius Pablo Picasso. He is considered one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century.
1947: Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir asked the Indian government for help after the Pakistani attack.
1950: China sided with North Korea in the Korean War and acted against South Korea.
1964: India developed its first indigenous tank. This tank was named “Vijayant”.
1964: President Kaunda assumed power in Zambia. Zambia became the ninth African country to gain independence from British rule.
1980: Famous Urdu poet Sahir Ludhianvi passes away.
1983: American forces captured the small Caribbean island of Grenada on the orders of President Ronald Reagan. Earlier, Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was killed in the left-wing rebellion.
1990: Meghalaya founder and first chief minister Williamson Apang Sangma passes away.
2022: 35 people died in Bangladesh due to cyclone ‘Sitrang’.
2022: Rishi Sunak became the first British Prime Minister of Asian descent, with world leaders calling Sunak’s appointment an “unprecedented milestone.”
2023: Several US states sued Meta, alleging that its social media platform is harmful to children’s mental health.
(with language inputs)
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