EC in favours of holding Lok Sabha and all state elections simultaneously: Report, Election commission of India, Lok Sabha and Assembly polls
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EC in favours of holding Lok Sabha and all state elections simultaneously: Report,Election commission of India,Lok Sabha and Assembly polls
New Delhi: The Election commission of India is in favour of holding Lok Sabha and Assembly polls simultaneously.
According a report in The Indian Express, the Poll watchdog has sent a letter to the law ministry expressing its willingness to conduct parliamentary and state polls together.
“In so far as the Election Commission is concerned, the issues involved in holding simultaneous elections are not insurmountable for it. If there is political consensus and will across the board, needless to say that the Commission supports the idea of considering simultaneous elections,” The daily quoted from the two-paged letter.
The EC's support has come in the backdrop of PM Modi rallying behind this idea.Concerned over parties and workers spending too much time and money in electioneering, PM Modi had proposed concurrent polls panchayats, urban local bodies, states and Parliament.
The Prime Minister was concerned that the way the electoral calendar of the country is set up, there are polls every year in some part of the country or the other. With the Model Code of Conduct coming into force in one State or the other and even for the Centre in some cases, this leads to administrative lethargy, and issues
Conduct of simultaneous polls to the Parliament and state assemblies is also a promise in the party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections in 2014.