{"id":18339,"date":"2024-09-24T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T05:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/?p=18339"},"modified":"2024-09-24T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T05:09:55","slug":"cabinet-accepts-recommendations-of-high-level-committee-on-simultaneous-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/2024\/09\/24\/cabinet-accepts-recommendations-of-high-level-committee-on-simultaneous-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet accepts recommendations of High-Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<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<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Elections have been held simultaneously between 1951 and 1967.<\/li>\n<li>Law Commission: 170th report (1999): One election to Lok Sabha and all Legislative Assemblies in five years.<\/li>\n<li>Parliamentary Committee 79th Report (2015): suggest methods for simultaneous elections in two phases.<\/li>\n<li>High Level Committee chaired by Shri Ram Nath Kovind extensively consulted a broad spectrum of stakeholders including political parties and experts.<\/li>\n<li>The report is available online at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onoe.gov.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/onoe.gov.in<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Extensive feedback has showed there is widespread support for simultaneous elections in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Recommendations and way forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Implement in two phases.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In first phase: conduct Lok Sabha and Assembly elections simultaneously.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In second phase: Conduct local body elections (panchayat and municipalities) within 100 days of general elections.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Common electoral roll for all elections.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Will initiate detailed discussions throughout the country.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Constitute an implementation group.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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 Elections have been held simultaneously between 1951 and 1967. Law Commission: 170th report (1999): One election to [&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-18339","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\/18339","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=18339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18339\/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=18339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.matribhumisamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}