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The first session was focussed on the discussion around the chip race while the second session witnessed thought provoking discussion on simultaneous polls.
The Centre has formed a panel to explore the possibility of "one nation, one election," which involves conducting simultaneous elections for both the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. This move aims to save money, improve administrative efficiency, ensure policy continuity, and potentially increase voter turnout. However, implementing simultaneous elections would require constitutional amendments and mean arbitrarily curtailing or extending the term of existing legislatures to bring their election dates in line with the due date for the rest of the country..
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, one of India’s most distinguished thinkers wrote in November 2016 that “we are now entering the politics of “permanent revolution.” The public intellectual had critiqued the government’s penchant, “to come up with new and radical moves with increasing frequency.” His political observation could prove to be correct. BJP government is about to re-launch the agenda of simultaneous elections of ‘Panchayat to Parliament” with a single voters list for all levels of direct and indirect elections all over the country. In the last fortnight or so India’s ruling ...