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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicSimultaneous Elections

Topic: Simultaneous Elections

At 1st JPC meet on simultaneous polls, Oppn MPs slam ‘unconstitutional’ proposal, question cost savings

Law ministry gives presentation running into thousands of pages; BJP MP says Kovind panel consulted over 25,000 citizens, with 'overwhelming majority' in favour.

‘One Nation, One Election’ bill introduced in LS, Oppn invokes ‘Basic Structure’ & federalism to oppose

Bills to align simultaneous polls for Lok Sabha & state assemblies were introduced by Union Minister Meghwal. Non-BJP parties opposed bills, calling them ‘anti-federal’ and attack on ‘Basic Structure’.

India can’t see ‘One Nation, One Election’ before 2034. Here’s what Modi govt is proposing

Modi-led NDA government is expected to introduce in Parliament two bills, facilitating simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha & state assembly, before end of Winter Session.

10 groups of secretaries work on govt roadmap. Bureaucracy overhaul, simultaneous polls among goals

Unlike in 2014 & 2019, when NDA government constituted SGOS after coming to power, this time task for 10 SGOS was set months ahead of end of Modi's second term.

Congress has much to learn from its own history. Nehru’s party took pride in simultaneous polls

The Ram Nath Kovind-led panel has listed the benefits of simultaneous elections. Congress and other parties are opposing it without advancing logically tenable reasons.

EC says J&K polls ‘right after’ LS — UT admin ‘unanimously’ against simultaneous elections

CEC Rajiv Kumar cites security reasons for administration's opposition. Regional parties of the UT as well as ruling BJP were in favour of simultaneous polls in J&K.

‘One Nation, One Election’ was the past, can be the future. Kovind panel shows the benefits

While holding simultaneous elections may be economically viable, the opposition may have a point that the Modi government could be ignoring the citizens’ right to remove non-performing governments’.

‘One nation-no election, dictatorship & death of federalism’ — oppn parties decry simultaneous polls

Criticism comes in wake of Ram Nath Kovind-led panel advocating for ‘one nation, one election’ in its report submitted to President Droupadi Murmu Thursday.

How simultaneous polls can benefit the economy — paper by finance commission ex-chief

Higher GDP growth, lower inflation & boost to capex could be among benefits of simultaneous polls, according to paper by 15th Finance Commission chairman N.K. Singh.

‘Told EC we’re ready’ — after Abdullah, Azad, BJP’s J&K unit endorses simultaneous polls

J&K BJP leaders say prepared for simultaneous polls but final call rests with Centre on account of security and logistical challenges. Assembly polls were last held in J&K in 2014.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.