A committee under former President Ram Nath Kovind is setting out to examine the feasibility of holding elections to Parliament and the assemblies simultaneously every five years. It is being said that money and time will be saved if elections are held together, perhaps within a single timeframe if not on one day.
How realistic is this proposition? And even if it were to be possible, what does it do to the functioning of democracy in the country? Does it undermine the very spirit of the Constitution which envisages a federal structure?
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