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The first meeting of the high-level committee to examine and make recommendations for holding simultaneous polls will be held on September 23, said former president Ram Nath Kovind, who heads it.
The government on September 2 had notified an eight-member committee to examine and make recommendations for holding elections to the Lok Sabha, the state Assemblies, municipalities and panchayats at the same time.
Gearing up for the upcoming Assembly and Lok Sabha polls, the Congress on Saturday made a strong pitch for social justice and resolved to make the INDIA bloc an "ideological and electoral success" to free the country from "divisive politics".
Simultaneous elections in 2024 could bring down the spending on polls by 20 to 30 per cent, depending on how effective the Election Commission is and how cooperative political parties are.
Four states that had simultaneous Lok Sabha-assembly polls in 2019 gave the upper hand even in Lok Sabha to the party that won the assembly. While BJP’s LS vote share had a minor uptick in these four states, simultaneous polls arguably helped regional parties send more MPs. Even if BJP has fears about upcoming state polls, lumping them with LS polls could be counterproductive