Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Can Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal cast vote on May 25? Here's what the law says

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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has put all three leaders on the star campaigners list for the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Can Arvind Kejriwal and his former ministers vote in the ongoing elections? Let’s explore: Delhi, where Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his former ministers are currently in jail, is scheduled to vote in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha Elections on May 25, 2024.

However, if they remain incarcerated on that day, they cannot exercise their voting rights. This is due to the absence of a provision for voting by prisoners in India, regardless of their conviction status.

Also Read: Jailed Amritpal Singh's likely election bid: Can a person behind bars contest polls in India? What does the law say? It will also depend on what the Supreme Court says on April 29. The top court will hear on April 29 the petitions filed by former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal against their arrests by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

These petitions are listed before the bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta. In 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Kejriwal cast his vote at a polling booth in civil lines area of Delhi.

Article 326 of the Constitution of India provides that voting right in elections to the Parliament or the assembly is based on adult suffrage. "That is to say, every person who is a citizen of India and who is not less that eighteen years of age on such date as may be fixed in the behalf by or under any law made by the appropriate Legislature and is not otherwise disqualified under the Constitution or any law made by the appropriate Legislature on the ground of non-residence, unsoundness of mind, crime or corrupt or illegal practice, shall be entitled to be registered