Shaking Up Elections, Corporate Tax: What India's 3-Year Plan Looks Like | Read

Any talk of taxing farm incomes turned out to be a political hot potato but NITI Aayog's three-year action agenda - discussed between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chief Ministers last week - has set out several ambitious goals. One of the most far reaching suggestions by NITI Aayog is to hold simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls from 2024. The report says, "There should be synchronized two-phase elections even if that means curtailing or extending the tenure of some assemblies in national interest."