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.
Do you think ‘One Nation, One Election’ can improve the efficiency of the electoral process? Divide the class and discuss into two groups—one to examine its potential advantages and the other to analyse its limitations.
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(i) Advantages include saving thousands of crores in public expenditure, avoiding repeated enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct that halts welfare projects and freeing security personnel and administrative staff from constant election duty. (ii) Limitations involve severe logistical hurdles in supplying electronic voting machines, constitutional challenges when state assemblies dissolve prematurely and the danger of powerful national issues overshadowing vital regional interests and state specific concerns.
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