Ramnath Kovind Committee submitted report on ‘One Nation, One Election’ to President Draupadi Murmu.
The committee formed under the chairmanship of former President Ramnath Kovind for One Nation-One Election i.e. one country, one election has submitted its report to President Draupadi Murmu. The committee members went to Rashtrapati Bhavan and submitted the report. The committee on One Nation One Election has prepared a report of 18 thousand 626 pages. The report has recommended holding simultaneous elections in 2029.
The committee was formed in September 2023 under the leadership of Kovind.
The report is the result of stakeholder and expert consultations and 191 days of research since the formation of the panel on September 2, 2023. A committee of 8 members was formed on September 2 last year under the leadership of former President Ramnath Kovind. The first meeting of One Nation One Election Committee was held on 23 September 2023 at Jodhpur Officers Hostel in Delhi. It has 8 members including former President Ramnath Kovind, Home Minister Amit Shah and former MP Ghulam Nabi Azad. Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal has been made a special member of the committee.
What are the panel’s suggestions?
- For the first simultaneous elections, the tenure of all the State Assemblies may be for the period ending with the next Lok Sabha elections.
- In case of a hung house and no confidence motion, fresh elections can be held for the remaining five-year term.
- In the first phase, Lok Sabha-Assembly elections can be held simultaneously, after that in the second phase, local body elections can be held within 100 days.
Recommendation to hold simultaneous elections in 2029
The report also says that if all parties agree to the Law Commission’s proposal, it will be implemented from 2029 only. Also, for this, assembly elections will have to be held in 25 states by December 2026. The tenure of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram assemblies should be extended by 6 months till June 2029. After that, assembly and Lok Sabha elections can be held simultaneously in all the states.
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