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New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday held a division vote to introduce two bills to amend the Constitution and permit simultaneous federal and state polls, as part of the ruling BJP’s ‘one nation, one election’ push. The bills were passed by simple majority, as required by the rulebook; 269 MPs voted in favour and…
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New Delhi: A Constitutional amendment bill – to permit holding Lok Sabha and Assembly elections together, part of the ‘one nation, one election’ push – will likely be tabled in the Lok Sabha this morning, and then be sent to a parliamentary committee. Here are the top 10 points in this big story: Union Law…
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The Union Cabinet has approved two bills to hold the parliamentary and assembly polls concurrently. New Delhi: A constitutional amendment bill for holding Lok Sabha and assembly elections simultaneously is likely to be introduced in Parliament on Tuesday and could be referred to a joint committee of the two Houses. A top government functionary said…
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The Centre will introduce the amendment bill in Lok Sabha on Monday. New Delhi: The Centre will introduce a bill to amend ‘The Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act 2019’ in Lok Sabha next week, to integrate the Union Territory with its ‘One Nation, One Election’ initiative, a senior government official told NDTV. “The existing Union…
File photo New Delhi: The government has listed two bills related to “one nation, one election” for introduction in the Lok Sabha on Monday. Union Law Minister Meghwal will introduce The Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill and The Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill in the Lower House. The ruling BJP took a major step towards implementing…
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Prashant Kishor pointed out that things were “different in the past”. (File) Political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor on Friday said “one nation one election” could be beneficial for the country provided the move was initiated with good intentions. The Jan Suraaj Party founder buttressed his point with the example of laws “brought in ostensibly to clamp…
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New Delhi: India aims to move to a system of holding a singular, unified, gargantuan election in which citizens elect both the Central government and respective state (federal) governments. This will not be the first time India attempts this system of election. When the country earned its Independence in 1947, the founding fathers had planned…
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The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved bills to implement “one nation, one election”. A high-level committee headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind had made recommendations on simultaneous elections, which were accepted by Cabinet in September. The top 10 recommendations on simultaneous polls made by the high-level panel on “one nation, one election” are: The…
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New Delhi: Simultaneous election took place in India till 1967 and there was no problem at the time in terms of federalism or any other factor, Union minister Chirag Paswan said today, questioning the Opposition’s resistance on the issue. Speaking at NDTV’s Yuva Conclave, Mr Paswan, one of the youngest Central ministers, enumerated the reasons…
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The report has been cleared by the Union Cabinet. New Delhi: The high-level panel on ‘one nation, one election’ studied election processes in seven countries including South Africa, Sweden and Belgium, before recommending simultaneous polls for Lok Sabha and state assemblies in India, according to the committee’s report approved by Union Cabinet on Wednesday. The…
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