Former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi | Manisha Mondal/ThePrint.in
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Former chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi said simultaneous central, state and Panchayat elections was a good idea in principle but infeasible and should not be implemented without consensus.
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In the federal system, there shall be freedom for the states to hold separate election on the incumbency, misrules and also restraint on rigging. More so if hung assembly, government falls and reelection will take place. Some government may fall again in 4 years. Simultaneous election will be fools paradise. STOP PREACHING.
No Sir. Simultaneous elections is really a very bad idea. Centre in the present parliamentary system enjoys almost unlimited powers and the states are week and dependent on the centre. Simultaneous elections will further weaken the states and local leadership as the voters may be swayed by one wave ignoring their regional needs and issues. It is a ploy to usurp the little power that the states enjoy today. We should rather strengthen the states and the local body governments. Our democracy can only be strengthened in a truly federal India and not in the Union of India.
In the federal system, there shall be freedom for the states to hold separate election on the incumbency, misrules and also restraint on rigging. More so if hung assembly, government falls and reelection will take place. Some government may fall again in 4 years. Simultaneous election will be fools paradise. STOP PREACHING.
No Sir. Simultaneous elections is really a very bad idea. Centre in the present parliamentary system enjoys almost unlimited powers and the states are week and dependent on the centre. Simultaneous elections will further weaken the states and local leadership as the voters may be swayed by one wave ignoring their regional needs and issues. It is a ploy to usurp the little power that the states enjoy today. We should rather strengthen the states and the local body governments. Our democracy can only be strengthened in a truly federal India and not in the Union of India.
In the federal system, there shall be freedom for the states to hold separate election on the incumbency, misrules and also restraint on rigging. More so if hung assembly, government falls and reelection will take place. Some government may fall again in 4 years. Simultaneous election will be fools paradise. STOP PREACHING.
No Sir. Simultaneous elections is really a very bad idea. Centre in the present parliamentary system enjoys almost unlimited powers and the states are week and dependent on the centre. Simultaneous elections will further weaken the states and local leadership as the voters may be swayed by one wave ignoring their regional needs and issues. It is a ploy to usurp the little power that the states enjoy today. We should rather strengthen the states and the local body governments. Our democracy can only be strengthened in a truly federal India and not in the Union of India.