Simultaneous elections significantly curb massive public expenditure, minimize administrative disruptions and prevent recurring campaign governance paralysis, but they pose severe constitutional challenges, logistically strain security forces and risk overshadowing critical regional issues with national political narratives.
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Conducting free and fair elections faces severe challenges including misinformation, fake news, voter intimidation, misuse of money power, criminalization of politics, administrative partiality and ensuring accessible voting infrastructure for marginalized and vulnerable communities.
Defacing walls with campaign graffiti, pasting posters everywhere without authorization and mobilizing large crowds to distribute leaflets and shout loud political slogans during the mandatory forty-eight-hour pre-polling silence period violate the code.
National parties hold broad multi-state influence, whereas state parties address regional concerns. National recognition requires substantial support across four states, while state parties meet criteria within one state and retain reserved local symbols.