Can 'One Nation, One Election' truly simplify India's electoral process?
constitutional amendments required to synchronise general and state elections, an idea referred to as 'One Nation, One Election' (ONOE). These proposed amendments — three amendments and inclusion of a new article — emerged from the recommendations of a high committee chaired by former president Ram Nath Kovind, who put together a 18,000-pg report nine months ago explaining how synchronising the electoral calendar could be done.
The proposed Act lets go of some important recommendations of the committee, such as including local elections. It makes provisions for the mechanisms required to induce and maintain synchronicity. Two key aspects are:
- Necessary curtailing of the term of elected assemblies to synchronise the calendar.
- Limitation of the term served by an assembly elected inside the cycle.
Should a state government fall, an election would be held, and the newly formed government would serve the remainder of the previous government's term.
In the statement of objects and reasons, the Act evokes the necessity to reduce time and cost of elections. It underlines that imposition of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) and mobilisation of human resources to conduct elections hinders development and public service delivery, and disrupts public life.
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