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One Nation , One Poll : Government Forms Committee Headed By Former President Ram Nath Kovind To Explore The Feasibility
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The government has constituted a committee headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind to explore the feasibility of “one nation, one election”, opening the possibility of Lok Sabha polls being advanced so that they could be held with a string of state Assembly contests.
As per PTi report, Opposition leaders have slammed the government’s move to set up a committee to study feasibility of “one nation, one election”, alleging it would pose a threat to the federal structure of the country.
Sources said on Friday that Kovind will explore the feasibility of the exercise and the mechanism to see as to how the country can go back to having simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assembly polls, as was the case till 1967.
He is expected to speak to experts and may also consult leaders of different political parties, they said.
