TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Upping the ante on the demand for simultaneous Assembly and Lok Sabha polls, BJP President Amit Shah has told the Law Commission that it will lead to cuts in the otherwise huge expenses borne on holding elections at present.
He also rejected the objections by different opposition parties that the idea of “One Nation, One Election” will be against the basic structure of the Indian federal system. “In fact, it will strengthen the federal structure in India,” Shah said.
In his letter to the law panel, handed over to the law panel by a party delegation headed by Union Minister M.A. Naqvi on Monday, Shah said that a perpetual electoral process strained national resources and that in a progressive democracy like India developmental work and policy decisions get halted when the Model Code of Conduct was enforced ahead of the elections.
“There is no relation between the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. Voters vote on different issues in both polls. Therefore, we must have faith and trust in the voters,” he said. Shah said that criticism of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s “One Nation, One Election” idea was “baseless” and done for political reasons.
