Simultaneous Elections

The term ‘Simultaneous Elections’ suggests a process that allows for simultaneous occurrence of the Lok Sabha and all the State Assembly elections once in 5 years, instead of them being throughout the year. As endorsed by the President and the Prime Minister of India, Simultaneous Elections are certainly what is needed in India for better functioning.
As suggested by experts, there are many ways in which having simultaneous elections would be conducive to India. For instance, the significant finances spent by the Election Commission of India and the political parties in the elections time and again would be considerably reduced if the elections happened just once in every 5 years. And the finances required by the political parties can only be generated through corruption or lobbying. Then because of the election season, the Model Code of Conduct is constantly imposed, thus paralyzing the political parties from making a decision that would remove them from favor, whereas in case of simultaneous elections they can focus on good governance for 5 years. Another reason being, the constant elections keep the political parties busy throughout leaving little time for governance. Finally, elections have a divisive effect as the parties play on the differences.
While the difficulties are considerable, amendments would have to be made to the constitution to make the dream of simultaneous election come true. Besides this, the no-confidence motion would become invalid to ensure parallel elections, thereby also denying anti-incumbency sentiments. Lastly, the immense effort required to get a majority consensus throughout India.
The thing to keep in mind is that there will always be challenges in accomplishing anything of significance; the right way to go about it is to find solutions, as is being done by Niti-Aayog and other subgroups.

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