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129th Constitutional Amendment Bill
December 21 , 2024
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- Two Bills seeking to implement simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies were introduced in the Lok Sabha by the Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal.
- It seeks to insert/amend the following provisions
- Inserting new article 82A — simultaneous elections to the House of the People (Lok Sabha) and all legislative Assemblies
- Amending Article 83 -Duration of Houses of Parliament,
- Amending Article 172 -Duration of State Legislatures and
- Amending Article 327 - Power of Parliament to make provision with respect to elections to Legislatures.
- While a simple majority is required to introduce a Bill to amend the Constitution, its passage requires two-thirds majority.
- As of one estimate, Two-thirds majority (307) was needed out of the total 461 votes in the Lok Sabha on that day.
- While 263 members voted in favour of introducing the Bill, 198 opposed it.
- This is the first time that the electronic voting system was used in the new Parliament.
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