The first meeting of a parliamentary panel reviewing two bills on simultaneous elections saw intense discussions, with opposition parties criticizing the concept as a threat to the Constitution and federalism, while BJP members defended it as reflecting public sentiment.
The MPs attending the meeting of the 39-member Joint Parliament ary Committee expressed their views and asked questions following a presentation by the Ministry of Law and Justice on the provisions of the bills and the rationale guiding them.
A number of opposition MPs, including Congress' Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, questioned the claim that simultaneous polls will reduce expenditure. They asked if any estimate was made following the 2004 Lok Sabha elections when EVMs were used the first time in all 543 seats and are believed to have brought down the cost incurred.
Another BJP MP, V D Sharma, said the idea of simultaneous elections was reflective of the popular will. He also noted that the high-level committee headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind had consulted over 25,000 members of the public, with an overwhelming majority supporting the idea. Congress MPs Manish Tewari and Randeep Surjewala claimed that the proposed law is against the concept of federalism in the country.
V Vijayasai Reddy of the YSR Congress, which had earlier supported the concept in its submission to the Kovind committee, raised a number of questions over the bills, and demanded that ballot papers must replace Electronic Voting Machines which are"vulnerable to manipulation".
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