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Fresh elections could be held to constitute a new Lok Sabha in the event of a hung House.

New Delhi:
A high-level panel led by former president Ram Nath Kovind submitted its report on ‘One Nation, One Election’ on Thursday.

Here are the panel’s top ten recommendations

  1. The government must develop a legally tenable mechanism to restore the cycle of simultaneous elections.

  2. In the first stage, elections for the Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies can be held together.

  3. In the second step, the elections to municipalities and panchayats will be synchronised with the Lok Sabha and state assemblies in such a way that elections to municipalities and panchayats are held within 100 days of the holding of parliamentary and assembly polls.

  4. To synchronise Lok Sabha and assembly elections, the president shall notify the date of the first sitting of the Lok Sabha after a general election as the “appointed date”.

  5. The tenure of all state assemblies formed via polls after the “appointed date” and before the expiry of the full term of the Lok Sabha, will be only for the period ending up to the subsequent parliamentary polls. After this one-time transitory measure, all Lok Sabha and assembly polls will be held simultaneously.

  6. Fresh elections could be held to constitute a new Lok Sabha in the event of a hung House a no-confidence motion, or any such event.

  7. Where fresh elections are held for the House of the People (Lok Sabha), the tenure of the House will be “only for the unexpired (remaining) term of the immediately preceding full term of the House.

  8. When fresh elections are held for state legislative assemblies, then such new assemblies — unless sooner dissolved — shall continue up to the end of the full term of the Lok Sabha.

  9. A single electoral roll and Elector’s Photo Identity Card (EPIC) shall be prepared by the Election Commission of India in consultation with the State Election Commission and the same will substitute any other electoral roll prepared by ECI.

  10. For making logistical arrangements for the conduct of simultaneous elections, the ECI may draw up a plan and estimate in advance for the procurement of equipment, such as EVMs and VVPATs, deployment of polling personnel and security forces and make other necessary arrangements.

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P Chidambaram said opposition leaders were not consulted in forming the 8 member committee (File)

New Delhi:

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday hit out at the BJP over the ‘One Nation, One Election’ move, alleging that like every other issue “sponsored by the BJP”, this seems to be “pre-determined and pre-packaged”.

His attack came after the government notified an eight-member high-level committee to examine and make recommendations at the earliest on the issue of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha, state assemblies, municipalities and panchayats.

The committee will be headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind and will have Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, former leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and former finance commission chairman NK Singh as members.

In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Mr Chidambaram said, “The question of One Nation, One Election is a political-legal question. Actually, it is more political than legal. Whether the question deserves to be considered at this stage is highly debatable,” the former Union minister said.

“All major political parties are stakeholders in this issue and they have not been consulted in forming the 8 member committee. The 8-member committee has just one member from a major Opposition political party,” he said.

“Besides, I am able to recognise only one acknowledged constitutional lawyer in the committee,” Mr Chidambaram said.

Like every other “issue sponsored by the BJP”, the issue of ‘one nation, one election’ seems to be a “pre-determined and pre-packaged” issue, he alleged.

The notification said the panel will commence functioning immediately and make recommendations “at the earliest”, but did not specify a timeframe to submit the report.

The opposition alliance had slammed the decision announced on Friday to form a committee under Ram Nath Kovind as a “threat” to the country’s federal structure.

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