Former president Ram Nath Kovind, who headed a sheet connected ‘one nation, 1 election,’ connected Saturday said the thought of simultaneous polls was perceived by the framers of the Constitution and truthful it cannot beryllium unconstitutional.
Kovind besides said an “implementation committee” volition look into the assorted law amendments required to instrumentality the concept, and it would past beryllium up to parliament to instrumentality a last call.
Delivering the Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Lecture here, helium said that the archetypal 4 LS and assembly polls were held unneurotic till 1967, past however could synchronised polls beryllium dubbed arsenic unconstitutional.
Some sections are saying that the thought is unconstitutional, but it is not existent arsenic the conception was perceived by the makers of the Constitution, helium said, adding that respective institutions, including the EC person supported the conception successful the past.