New Delhi: On Wednesday, The first official meeting of the 'One Nation One Election' committee is likely to be chaired by former President Ram Nath Kovind in Delhi, sources said. This meeting can be held at 3 pm at the residence of committee chairman, former President Ramnath Kovind.
New Delhi: On Wednesday, The first official meeting of the ‘One Nation One Election’ committee is likely to be chaired by former President Ram Nath Kovind in Delhi, sources said. This meeting can be held at 3 pm at the residence of committee chairman, former President Ramnath Kovind.
A meeting with the former President is also expected on Wednesday on the same issue. The committee includes former President Ramnath Kovind as chairman, apart from Home Minister Amit Shah, former leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Finance Commission Chairman NK Singh, senior lawyer Harish Salve, former Lok Sabha General Secretary Subhash C Kashyap and former Chief Vigilance. Commissioner Sanjay Kothari is also included.
Days after Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi announced a special five-day session in Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre set up a high-level committee headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind. Soon after BJP chief J.P. Nadda met former President Ram Nath Kovind, he was entrusted with the responsibility of heading a committee to explore the feasibility of “one nation, one election”, which in 1967 Was up to Home Minister is Amit Shah.
The government has called a special session of Parliament from September 18 to September 22. There are speculations that the government may bring a bill on one country, one election.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, since 2014, has been a strong votary for the idea of simultaneous polls, which include those at local bodies, citing the financial burden caused by the almost continuous election cycle and jolt to development work during the polling period.
Kovind too had echoed Modi’s view and expressed his support to the idea after becoming President in 2017. The ex-president, who will head the commitee, will explore the feasibility and the mechanism to see as to how the country can go back to having simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assembly polls, as was the case till 1967.
