ONE NATION ONE ELECTION

 

GOVT FORMS PANEL UNDER KOVIND TO STUDY ‘ONE NATION ONE POLL’

ONE NATION , ONE POLL LAW UNLIKELY IN SPECIAL SESSION

Speculation Over Photo Session Being Planned For Special Sitting

The government on Friday formed a Six member panel headed by Former President Ram Nath Kovind to explore the feasibility of ONE NATION ONE ELECTION a day after the announcement of a special session of parliament from September 18-22 stoked speculation of early Lok Sabha polls,clubbed with 5 state polls due later this year.

Government sources said the Kovind Led committee on one nation, one election has been tasked with holding consultations with people from dif ferent sections, including the political class, and since it would be a time-consum ing process, a legislation on this was unlikely during the special session.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi ;s big move push through his 'one nation, one election' concept promises to be a big-ticket idea which can disrupt conventional calculations and allow it to frame the much earlier upcoming Lok Sabha polls along helpful lines, as the party believes the issue has the potential to catch popular imagination.

In its 2014 manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls, BJP had pledged 'one nation, one election', although the party had called for simultaneous polls much earlier.

Our former president Shri Kovind, in his address to the joint session of Parliament in 2018, had suggested the "reform", arguing that frequent polls took a toll on state resources and paralysed development work.