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Mamata, Chandrasekhar Rao, And Stalin To Skip PM Modi’s All-party Meet

Story Highlights
  • PM Modi has all called for an all-party meeting to discuss simultaneous elections
  • Mamata Banerjee, Chandrababu Naidu, KCR will be skipping the all-party meet
  • The 'One Nation, One Poll', which was part of BJP's 2019 manifest.

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold an all-party meeting with the main opposition parties on Wednesday, in which the idea of ​​holding elections together will be discussed. The opposition, which is uninterrupted on the subject of election together, will hold a meeting before the all-party meeting in the morning.

The ‘One Nation, One Poll’, which was part of BJP’s 2019 manifesto, has given the opposition tired of the possibilities.

According to a report by PTI, sources said that the opposition is sceptical about this idea and is watching the all-party meeting in the form of a “trap” set by the BJP. Before going to meet Modi, the band of opposition parties will hold a meeting at around 10 am on Wednesday.

The leader of UPA parties, who met in the Parliament on Tuesday evening, as well as discussed the issue of elections. They will discuss further with other similar thinking parties before taking a final decision on the matter.

Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi were also present at the meeting on Tuesday. Rahul Gandhi will meet Congress leaders on Wednesday again However, Sonia Gandhi kept the suspense on Rahul’s participation in an all-party meeting.

On the other hand, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, who is the chief of Trinamool Congress, Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao who heads the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and DMK chief MK Stalin will be skipping the Modi all-party meet in the Capital on Thursday evening. Former NDA ally and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief Chandrababu Naidu will also skip the meeting.

‘One Nation, One Poll’, comes after the Law Commission had recommended holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies to save public money last year.

The Policy Commission said in the draft recommendations that simultaneous elections would help the government to focus on “developmental activities rather than electoral development”.

In the draft submitted to the Law Ministry, “House of People (Lok Sabha) and State Legislatures (excluding Jammu and Kashmir State) were recommended to hold elections simultaneously.”

It, however, cautioned that “holding simultaneous elections is not possible within the existing framework of the Constitution.”

(With Agency Inputs)

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