PRIME MINISTER AGAIN RAISING VOICE FOR SIMULTANEOUS ELECTIONS SHOULD IMPLEMENT THE SAME
Odishabarta,Bureau
DELHI,27/11/20:Prime Minister Narender Modi while addressing two-day 80th all India Presiding Officers Conference on 26.11.2020 in Kevadia (Gujarat) once again and rightly too raised voice for common voter-list and simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha, state-assemblies and local bodies.
But biggest obstacle in holding simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha and State Assemblies is unstable governments and hung state assemblies causing mid-term assembly-elections at times thus breaking concept of possible simultaneous elections. Situation can be best tackled by electing Chief Minister, Speaker and Deputy Speaker in a state simultaneously through secret and compulsory vote through EVMs equipped with VVPAT on nominations signed by at least 34-percent members with abstaining members losing right to vote in the House though retaining membership. Such elected incumbents may be removed through same process but with compulsion to name alternate leader in the same motion.
Also elections to posts of President and Vice President should be held simultaneously in the manner President is elected by all MPs and MLAs on nominations signed by at least 34-percent MPs through EVMs equipped with VVPAT system. In case mid-term vacancy is caused at post of President, Vice President may be made President for rest of the term. However in case of mid-term vacancy caused at post of Vice President, an interim Vice President may be elected for rest of the term by MPs onlyIn case both regularly and simultaneously elected President and Vice President may not be able to complete full term, fresh simultaneous elections for next five years may be held without waiting for completion of earlier five-year term to finish. . Presently there is a gap of just 17 days in tenures of present President Ramnath Kovind and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu which can be covered by crowning M Venkaiah Naidu as caretaker President from 26.07.2022 till 11.08.2022.
Input;Ms.Madhu Agarwal,(Guinness Record Holder for letters in newspapers)
