The Narendra Modi government, which completes a 100 days in office today, intends to roll out its “one nation, one election” agenda during this term. However, the government’s push for simultaneous polls to Parliament and state assemblies — a hugely contested issue that will necessarily involve the overhauling of India’s electoral democracy — is likely to test its political mettle: …
Elections are a mechanism to hold the government accountable. The Constitution of India mandates direct elections at the end of a term of 5 years at both State and National level. The idea of restoration to the earlier practice of holding simultaneous elections was floated by Election Commission India in 1983. The Law Commission of India in its 170th Report …
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Election Commission’s decision to hold separate elections to two Rajya Sabha seats from Gujarat even though they are being held on the same day. The EC had cited two Delhi high court judgments in support of its decision to hold election to two seats separately. Two seats fell …
