BJP noted on Sunday that Lok Sabha and Assembly polls were held together in the country till 1967 and the issue of simultaneous elections was debated when Indira Gandhi was the prime minister as well, as it attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his «parochial» stand in criticising the idea. «The first time serious contemplation, to go back to the arrangement (simultaneous polls) our founding fathers had envisaged, happened in 1982 when Mrs Indira Gandhi was in power.
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