Govt introduces 'One Nation One Election' bills in Lok Sabha
This story was originally published at 14:39 IST on 17 December 2024
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NEW DELHI – The Narendra Modi government on Tuesday introduced 'One Nation One Election' bills in the Lok Sabha, seeking to hold simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha, state assemblies, and local bodies across the country. The bills – the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024 and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024 – are expected to be referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee.
The Cabinet had approved the controversial bills on Thursday. The Cabinet had earlier cleared a report by a committee headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind, recommending simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha, state assemblies, and local bodies across the country.
The proposal has met with strong opposition. The main Opposition party, the Congress has rejected the idea outright, saying that the proposal goes against the guarantees of federalism contained in the Constitution. "There is no place for the concept of simultaneous elections in a country that has adopted a Parliamentary system of government," Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge had written in a letter to the committee's Secretary Niten Chandra.
Other opposition parties, including the Samajwadi Party, the Trinamool Congress, the Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam and the Communist Party of India-Marxist have also opposed the move.
Besides Kovind, the committee included Home Minister Amit Shah, former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, 15th Finance Commission Chairman N.K. Singh, former Lok Sabha secretary general Subhash C. Kashyap, and former chief vigilance commissioner Sanjay Kothari. Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal was a special invitee and former law secretary Niten Chandra was the secretary. End
Reported by Shahid K. Abbas
Edited by Saji George Titus
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