Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge wrote a letter to the secretary of the high-level committee for ‘One Nation One Election’, Niten Chandra, and “strongly opposed” the concept of ‘One Nation One Election’. The Congress chief asserted that the concept of holding simultaneous elections within the nation goes in opposition to the ensures of federalism and the fundamental construction of the Structure.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge writes to the secretary of high-level committee for ‘One Nation One Election’, in his letter he mentioned that Congress is strongly against the concept of ‘One Nation One Election’. pic.twitter.com/n9KBQQd78O
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Kharge additionally demanded that the concept be deserted and the high-powered committee shaped on this regard be dissolved. In a letter to the secretary of the committee on one nation, one election, he requested former President Ram Nath Kovind, who heads the panel, to not permit his persona and the workplace of the previous president to be “abused” by the central authorities to “subvert” the Structure and Parliamentary democracy.
“The Indian Nationwide Congress is strongly against the very concept of ‘One Nation, One Election’. For the sake of sustaining a thriving and a strong democracy, it’s crucial that all the concept have to be deserted and the high-powered committee dissolved,” Kharge mentioned in his letter.
“On behalf of the Congress get together and the individuals of the nation, I humbly request the Chairman of the high-level committee to not permit his persona and the workplace of the previous president of India to be abused by the Union authorities to subvert the structure and parliamentary democracy on this nation,” the letter learn.
Kharge’s letter got here in response to Chandra’s letter of October 18 the place he had invited recommendations for consideration of the excessive stage committee consituted by the federal government for the aim of 1 nation, one election. “The federal government, parliament and ECI ought to work collectively to make sure individuals’s mandate is revered fairly than divert individuals’s consideration by speaking about undemocratic concepts like simultaneous elections,” Kharge mentioned.