A PIL has been filed in the Delhi High court seeking Direction to Election commission to
conduct Lok Sabaha Election along with Legislative assemblies so that Man Power and Money Power can be saved.
The plea further stated that there are many plus points in holding Assembly, PIL in the Delhi HC seeks Lok Sabha, Assembly, Municipal polls & Panchayat together. It might lower the cost and time involved in elections in terms of paramilitary force, government staff, election commission staff, electronic voting machines, voter slips.
Furthermore the plea seeks order to direct the EC & the centre to establish the feasibility
in conduction of elections on Saturdays, Sundays and in holidays to save the valuable time
for colleges, universities, schools, manufacturing organisations, and service industries.
The petitioner, BJP leader and practicing advocate of the Supreme Court has sought
allocation of the direction to EC and the centre to take appropriate steps to implement the
Law Commission of India’s recommendations in Report No-170, that stated- “We must go back
to situations where the elections to Legislative assemblies and Lok Sabha are held once”.
Decision to conduct the common elections would save the cost, time and money in campaigning
for parties that would be less. The imposition in the Model Code Conduct holds up the implementation in the projects of central & state government and the welfare schemes takes the amount of time, effort from governance issues.
The plea further added that the need of joint election to Lok Sabha Assemblies, Municipal bodies, panchayats has been debated & discussed for a long period.
The plea read that ” As elections have become a big and expensive budget, the Law Commission
of India has suggested elections to Lok Sabha & State Legislative Assemblies for getting the stability
in governance in its 170th report on reform of electoral laws (1999).
The plea suggested the assembly’s election terms that would expire in 2023 & 2024, get bunched up
along with 2024.
The plea further purposed that if the consensus arrive at among political parties, the assembly elections can be held along with 2024 general elections in 16 states that are Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Karnataka, Chhatisgarh, Madhya Pradesh , Mizoram, Rajasthan, Telangana, Sikkim, Andra Pradesh,
Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Odisha, Jharkhand and Maharashtra.
