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One nation, One Election: The Ramnath-Kovind led committee comprises of eight members including Amit Shah, Adhir Ranjan and others
The government on Saturday released the names of members of the high-level committee set up to examine the issue of simultaneous elections and conduct simultaneous elections in the country.
The Ramnath-Kovind-led committee comprises eight members including Amit Shah, Adhir Ranjan and others. The committee’s objective is to investigate the feasibility of implementing the concept of ‘one nation, one election’.
Other members of the committee include Ghulam Nabi Azad, NK Singh, Subhash C Kashyap, Harish Salve and Sanjay Kothari.
What is One Nation, One Election?
The idea of ‘One Nation, One Election’ refers to holding simultaneous elections across the country. This simply means that the polls for Lok Sabha and state assemblies will be held together.
The Election Commission (EC) conducts the elections for state assemblies and Lok Sabha (Parliament) as separate events. Every state holds its elections every five years, similar to the Lok Sabha. Most of the states have their own electoral cycle.
The committee’s formation over ‘One Nation, One Election’ comes at a time when five states- including Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are set to conduct assembly elections in November-December.
These assembly elections will precede the Lok Sabha elections, expected in May-June 2024. On the other hand, the states of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh are scheduled to go to the polls with the Lok Sabha elections.
The government is contemplating advancing some of the Assembly elections to coincide with the Lok Sabha polls. The committee led by Kovind will explore the feasibility of the exercise and the mechanism to examine how the country can go back to having simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assembly polls.
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