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Chaudhary said the treatment was “positive” and that members discussed an indicative database of stakeholders to beryllium invited for written and oral submissions to the committee. He said the committee had decided that it should sojourn each states to interact with stakeholders.
From essay-writing and statement competitions for schoolhouse and assemblage students to meetings with erstwhile Chief Justices of India, the Parliamentary committee examining the 2 Bills for simultaneous elections is considering an extended nationalist consultation and consciousness run connected the One Nation One Election Bills, it is learnt.
On Friday, the Joint Committee connected the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty–Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024 and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, chaired by BJP MP P P Chaudhary, held its 2nd gathering “to sermon the process and modalities for introspection of the Amendment Bills”, arsenic per the agenda.
Chaudhary said the treatment was “positive” and that members discussed an indicative database of stakeholders to beryllium invited for written and oral submissions to the committee. He said the committee had decided that it should sojourn each states to interact with stakeholders.
It is learnt that an indicative database of 23 antithetic categories of stakeholders includes governmental parties, retired judges, the Election Commission (current and former), manufacture bodies, commercialized unions, farmers’ unions, absorption institutes, deliberation tanks, governmental analysts and predetermination strategists and nationalist assemblage undertakings.
The database besides includes celebrities and the amusement industry.
To question nationalist views, the committee volition acceptable up a website for submissions.
Opposition members, including from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Congress, are opposed to the idea, pointing retired that the Bills that are yet to beryllium passed by Parliament.
The Bills were introduced successful the Lok Sabha by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal connected December 17, 2024 and referred to the associated committee.
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The 2 Bills alteration simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and State/Union Territory Assemblies by syncing their terms.
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