New Parliamentary Committee on 'One Nation One Election' to have Anurag Thakur, Priyanka Gandhi
New Delhi/IBNS: The new Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), which will be formed to look into the 'One Nation One Election' matter, will have BJP leaders Anurag Thakur, Anil Baluni, and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra among others, media reports said.
The JPC will have 21 MPs from the Lok Sabha and 10 parliamentarians from the Rajya Sabha.
The committee has been entrusted to provide a report to parliament by the first day of the last week of the next session.
Besides the three, some of the other key prominent members will include Sambit Patra, Supriya Sule, Shrikant Eknath Shinde, Manish Tewari, and Kalyan Banerjee.
The JPC will be formed to determine whether the Constitution can be amended to hold national and state elections simultaneously.
Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal tabled the constitutional amendment bills for holding Lok Sabha and assembly elections simultaneously in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament on Tuesday amid opposition from a large section of the opposition leaders.
The opposition sought a division of votes after the law minister moved the motion to introduce the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024 and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024 in the Lok Sabha.
The bills will now be referred to the joint committee of the two Houses, as per reports.
The constitutional amendment bill is aimed at synchronising Lok Sabha and state legislative assembly elections.
Although a high-level committee, headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind, had recommended in its 18,626-page report that municipal and panchayat elections be held parallelly national and state elections in phases, the Cabinet has opted to exclude, "as of now," the framework for local body elections.
Several INDIA bloc parties, including the Congress and AAP, have opposed the decision, arguing that it could disproportionately benefit the ruling party.
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