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New Delhi: The Election Commission would require an estimated Rs 10,000 crore every 15 years to procure new Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) if simultaneous polls are held for...
India News: The Election Commission estimates that Rs 10,000 crore would be required every 15 years for new Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) if simultaneous polls are conducted. The Commission highlighted the need for additional polling and security personnel, enhanced storage facilities for EVMs, and more vehicles. The first simultaneous elections can only be held in 2029, and constitutional amendments would be required.
"The Indian National Congress is strongly opposed to the very idea of 'One Nation, One Election'. For the sake of maintaining a thriving and a robust democracy, it is imperative that the entire idea must be abandoned and the high-powered committee dissolved," Kharge said in his letter to Niten Chandra, the secretary of the committee. �� One Nation, One Election Against Basic Structure, Dissolve High-Powered Committee, Says Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge.
The Mallikarjun Kharge-led Congress demanded that the idea of one nation, one election be abandoned and the high-powered panel formed to study it be dissolved. | Latest News India
The committee has so far held two meetings since it was constituted in September last year. It had recently written to political parties seeking their views and an interaction on a "mutually agreed date" on the idea of holding simultaneous polls. It had later sent a reminder to the parties. Letters were sent to six national parties, 33 state parties and seven registered unrecognised parties.