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- The high-level committee on 'one nation, one election' submitted its report to the President Droupadi Murmu.
- The panel was led by former President Ram Nath Kovind.
- The committee is put unanimous opinion that simultaneous polls should be held.
- At first, the Lok Sabha elections and state polls should be held simultaneously followed by synchronised local body polls within 100 days.
- The Constitution would have to be amended to introduce the concepts of a “full term” and an “unexpired period” (where the House or the assembly is dissolved sooner than the expiry of its “full term”).
- Also, the provisions have to be made so that the elections held where the House or an assembly is dissolved sooner than its “full term” would be considered to be a “mid-term” election.
- The election held after the expiry of five years would be considered a “general election.
- In the event of a mid-term dissolution, the term of the reconstituted legislature shall be for the remaining unexpired period of the original term of five years.
- Then the next election to the legislature concerned could take place with “general election”.
- Conducting polls simultaneously was the norm in India until 1967 and four elections were held this way.
- The practice stopped after some state assemblies were dissolved prematurely in 1968-69.
- The Lok Sabha was also, for the first time, dissolved a year ahead of schedule in 1970 and mid-term elections had been held in 1971.
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