One Nation, One Election Bills Introduced in LS

17 Dec 2024 Evaluate

Amid strong objections from Opposition INDIA bloc members, the two bills that lay down the mechanism to hold simultaneous elections – The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024′ and ‘The Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024’, were formally introduced in the Lok Sabha (LS).

The bills were passed by simple majority, as required by the rulebook; 269 MPs voted in favour and 198 opposed it. However, the margin was flagged by critics of the 'one nation, one election' bill, who claimed it shows the government lacks support, even at this stage, to pass the bills. This was the first time that the electronic voting system was used in the Lok Sabha (LS) in the new Parliament House.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal told the House that the government was ready to refer the two Bills to a joint committee of Parliament for detailed consideration.

Following the introduction of the bills, Congress' Manish Tewari, the Samajwadi Party's Dharmendra Yadav, Kalyan Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress, and TR Baalu from Tamil Nadu's Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam opposed the move. The Shiv Sena faction of ex-Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and the Nationalist Congress Party group led by Sharad Pawar, as well as a host of smaller parties, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Indian Union Muslim League, also voiced opposition.


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