The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) meeting on ‘One Nation, One Election’ is scheduled to be held on January 8 next year.
Congress leader Salman Khurshid said on Tuesday that conducting ‘One Nation, One Election’ is not an easy task and that the Joint Parliamentary Committee will deliberate on all related issues. “It is not an easy task. When the parliamentary committee sits, all the issues will be placed before it and discussed,” Khurshid told ANI.
Leaders of the Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Revolutionary Socialist Party, and All India Forward Bloc convened in the national capital on Sunday to discuss the current political situation.
The bill introduced in the Lok Sabha proposes simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies across India. It has been referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee for detailed discussion.
The 31-member Joint Parliamentary Committee tasked with examining the ‘One Nation, One Election’ Bill includes 21 members from the Lok Sabha, such as Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Manish Tewari, NCP’s Supriya Sule, TMC’s Kalyan Banerjee, and BJP members PP Chaudhary, Bansuri Swaraj, and Anurag Singh Thakur. Ten members from the Rajya Sabha are also part of the panel.
