One Nation, One Poll: JPC to meet July 11; key legal consultations on cards | India News

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NEW DELHI: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the ‘One Nation, One Poll’ initiative is scheduled to meet on July 11, 2025, on the Parliament House Annexe in New Delhi. The panel, headed by BJP MP PP Chaudhary, will maintain consultations with legal specialists and former officers as a part of its ongoing deliberations on the proposed constitutional reforms, reported information company ANI.The assembly is part of the broader train to study the Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill, 2024, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, which purpose to allow simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.The committee’s subsequent part entails looking for suggestions from legal and institutional stakeholders to refine its suggestions.The proposed laws, launched within the Lok Sabha in December 2024, would enable the President to difficulty a notification on the date of the primary sitting of the Lok Sabha, possible in 2029, to repair the schedule for future simultaneous elections. Under the plan, assemblies elected after 2029 would have phrases ending with the five-year time period of that Lok Sabha, aligning all future polls by 2034.PP Chaudhary has earlier said that assemblies elected in 2032, together with Uttar Pradesh’s, could have shortened tenures to match the nationwide cycle. “Tenures of assemblies may be reduced to two or three years to ensure that all elections are held together in 2034,” Chaudhary had defined.The 39-member committee contains 27 Lok Sabha MPs and 12 Rajya Sabha MPs, with illustration from throughout the political spectrum. Notable members embrace BJP’s Anurag Thakur and Bansuri Swaraj, Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Manish Tewari, and NCP’s Supriya Sule.The committee has up to now visited Maharashtra and Uttarakhand, with plans to tour extra states and Union Territories earlier than finalising its report.The authorities has maintained that holding simultaneous elections will streamline governance, scale back the frequency and price of polls, and minimise coverage paralysis brought on by the Model Code of Conduct. However, critics, together with a number of opposition events, have flagged issues over its impression on India’s federal construction and the autonomy of state governments.The July 11 assembly is predicted to provide additional readability on the legal and logistical roadmap for implementing the ‘One Nation, One Election’ framework, a key precedence of the Modi authorities.