A nation, a pole: JPC to complete July 11; Major legal counseling on cards | Bharat News
New Delhi: Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) is scheduled to meet Parliament House Annexe in New Delhi on July 11, 2025 on ‘One Nation, One Poll’ initiative. News agency ANI said that the panel led by BJP MP PP Chaudhary will organize counseling with legal experts and former officials as part of their ongoing discussion.The meeting is a part of a comprehensive practice to investigate the Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill, 2024, and Center Region Laws (Amendment) Bills, 2024, which aims to enable simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha and State Assembly.The next phase of the committee involves obtaining response from legal and institutional stakeholders to refine its recommendations.The proposed law presented in the Lok Sabha in December 2024 will allow the President to issue a notification on the date of the first seating of the Lok Sabha in 2029, which is likely to fix the schedule for the future as well as the elections. Under the scheme, the assemblies selected after 2029 will have termination conditions with a five -year tenure of the Lok Sabha, which align all the future elections by 2034.PP Chaudhary has earlier said that the assemblies elected in 2032 including Uttar Pradesh may have reduced the tenure to match the national cycle. Chaudhary explained, “The tenure of the assemblies can be reduced by two or three years to ensure that all elections are held simultaneously in 2034.”The 39-Slender Committee consists of 27 Lok Sabha MPs and 12 Rajya Sabha MPs, representing political spectrum. Notable members include Anurag Thakur of BJP and Bansuri Swaraj, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Wadra and Manish Tiwari and NCP’s Supriya Sule.The committee has so far visited Maharashtra and Uttarakhand, with a plan to visit more states and center areas before finalizing its report.The government has said that holding elections simultaneously will streamline the government, reduce the frequency and cost of elections, and the policy paralysis caused by the code of conduct will be reduced. However, critics, including many opposition parties, have expressed concern over the federal structure of India and its impact on the autonomy of the state governments.In the July 11 meeting, the ‘One Nation, One Election’ is expected to offer more clarity on legal and logistic roadmaps to implement the framework, which is a major priority of the Modi government.
