Mamata Banerjee
New Delhi: There has been talk of holding simultaneous elections in the country for some time now. The central government has also formed a committee to consider this. It is being presided over by former President Ramnath Kovind. A meeting of this committee has also taken place. Now Mamata Banerjee’s statement regarding one country, one election has also come to light. Mamta has termed this concept as against the Constitution itself.
Expressed objection to the proposed system by writing a letter
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote a letter to Niten Chandra, Secretary of the High Level Committee on ‘One Nation, One Election’, expressing her objections to the proposed system. In a letter written as Trinamool Congress president, he argued that the Constitution envisions the Indian nation in a federal manner, resulting in a system of parallel existence of a central government and several state governments.
He wrote, “If the framers of the Indian Constitution did not mention the concept of ‘one nation, one election’, then how did you arrive at the concept of ‘one nation, one election’? Unless this basic puzzle is solved , until then it is difficult to reach any firm view on this catchy phrase.” In the letter, the Trinamool chief also raised the issue of the situation where the Lok Sabha is dissolved untimely, while the state assemblies remain unaffected.
State assemblies will be affected by this
He asked, “The State Legislatures should not be destabilized by the instability of the Government at the Center and the resulting impact on Parliament. How does your Honorable Committee propose to resolve these questions?” According to him, it seems that the Central Government is attempting to impose a structure which is against the spirit of the true democratic and federal structure laid down in the Indian Constitution.
“We object to the extremely unrepresentative composition of the committee and point out that no Chief Minister has been included in it for fear of receiving practical objections,” he wrote. Banerjee also said that she doubted whether the high-level committee was even seriously interested in analyzing the flaws in the case. He added, “I also suspect that it fails to consider that parliamentary elections and state assembly elections are quite different in nature.”
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