EC has a Plan B for simultaneous polls One year, one election

The Election Commission has suggested one year one election as an alternative to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pitch for one nation one election. The poll panel floated the idea in its response to a letter from the Law Commission on April 24 in which the law commission had sought EC’s views on aligning all state elections with the Lok Sabha polls. The Law Commission had asked for the EC’s position on five Constitutional issues, and 15 sociopolitical and economic issues, that need to be addressed before the government can gear up to hold simultaneous polls. While the EC has reiterated its support for holding simultaneous polls, provided the legal and financial challenges are overcome, it has alternatively suggested that all the elections due in a year may be held together.