Lok Sabha elections 2024 | Trivia: When the ECI launched the 'vote without fear' campaign

Take a look at interesting tidbits of history associated with the Lok Sabha elections.

The ECI building.

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In the 1977 Lok Sabha polls, held after the Emergency, 'vote without fear' was the slogan the ECI chose to put on its posters exhorting voters to cast their votes freely.

CEC T Swaminathan described the election as 'historic' for having obtained a majority for the first time in 25 years for a party other than the Indian National Congress.

Swaminathan went on to emphasise the role the ECI played in restoring democracy, as 'an independent, objective, honest and impartial agency', a role which he claimed was widely acclaimed in India and abroad.

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