One Nation, One Election: A Step-by-Step Process Of How Govt Plans To Implement It

An implementation group will be formed to take forward the recommendations of the Kovind panel on ‘One Nation One Poll’, the report for which was accepted by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday. Here is how the government plans to implement ‘One Nation One Poll’ : Simultaneous elections will be implemented in two phases In the first phase, Lok Sabha and assembly elections will be conducted simultaneously In the second phase, local body elections to panchayats and municipal bodies will be conducted within 100 days of the general elections There will be a common electoral roll for all elections. In the states with elections after that date, their tenure will be short-terminated to be parallel with the general elections In effect, state governments formed between 2024 and 2028 will have a shorter term till the 2029 Lok Sabha elections, after which there will be automatic simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls ⁠For example, a state which holds an election in 2025 will have a government with a four-year-term while the one that conducts an election in 2027 will have a government only for two years till 2029 ⁠The report has also recommended that in the event of a hung House, no-confidence motion or any such event, fresh elections may be held to form the new House – be it in the Lok Sabha or state assemblies The term of the new government, hence formed, will also be only for the unexpired term of the preceding full term of the Lok Sabha and the expiration of this period shall operate as dissolution of the House Vaishnaw further said the panel found widespread support for simultaneous polls, following which the Cabinet gave a unanimous nod to the proposal. It will empower the central government to make laws to ensure parallel elections of municipalities and panchayats with Lok Sabha and assembly elections The second Bill will introduce Article 324A in the Constitution. A new sub-clause to Article 325 of the Constitution will suggest that there should be a single electoral roll for all polling in a constituency Separately, the Law Commission is also likely to come up soon with its report on simultaneous polls, of which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been a strong votary Sources said the Law Commission is likely to recommend holding simultaneous polls for all three tiers of the government — the Lok Sabha, state assemblies and local bodies like municipalities and panchayats — starting with 2029 and a provision for a unity government in cases like a hung house.