One Nation One Election Bill: The Road Ahead
An important highlight of the ongoing winter session of parliament was the Union cabinet clearing the bills for simultaneous elections. Sources have said that the bills could be brought in next week after the house passes the first batch of supplementary demands for grants listed for Monday. Now, the bill paves the way for unified elections across the nation, something that has been on the agenda of ruling BJP for quite some time now. The process of simultaneous elections itself will not take place till 2034, the provisions of the bill indicate. Can we see concurrent polls as a move that could transform India's electoral system? What are the challenges to its execution? What are the realistic chances of the BJP shoring up numbers in its support for this bill, and if it becomes a reality will it change the way we, the people of the country, look at elections?
