{"id":18314,"date":"2024-09-28T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T06:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/?p=18314"},"modified":"2024-09-28T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T06:59:38","slug":"cabinet-accepts-recommendations-of-high-level-committee-on-simultaneous-elections-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/2024\/09\/28\/cabinet-accepts-recommendations-of-high-level-committee-on-simultaneous-elections-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet accepts recommendations of High-Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-left clearfix\">\n<div class=\"left-container\">\n<div class=\"left-content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content-block clearfix\">\n<div class=\"news-bg\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has accepted the recommendations of the High-Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections under the chairmanship of former President Shri Ram Nath Kovind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Simultaneous elections: recommendations of high-level committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Elections have been held simultaneously between 1951 and 1967.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Law Commission: 170th report (1999): One election to Lok Sabha and all Legislative Assemblies in five years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Parliamentary Committee 79th Report (2015): suggest methods for simultaneous elections in two phases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 High Level Committee chaired by Shri Ram Nath Kovind extensively consulted a broad spectrum of stakeholders including political parties and experts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 The report is available online at:\u00a0<a class=\"foury\" href=\"https:\/\/onoe.gov.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/onoe.gov.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Extensive feedback has showed there is widespread support for simultaneous elections in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Recommendations and way forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Implement in two phases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 In first phase: conduct Lok Sabha and Assembly elections simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 In second phase: Conduct local body elections (panchayat and municipalities) within 100 days of general elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Common electoral roll for all elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Will initiate detailed discussions throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Constitute an implementation group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has accepted the recommendations of the High-Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections under the chairmanship of former President Shri Ram Nath Kovind. Simultaneous elections: recommendations of high-level committee \u2022 Elections have been held simultaneously between 1951 and 1967. \u2022 Law Commission: 170th report (1999): One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":106422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52905],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}