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Snapshot of the day

September 18, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

The Union Cabinet today cleared Narendra Modi’s pet proposal of holding simultaneous elections in India and a draft Bill to this effect will be introduced as early as the winter session of Parliament. Modi has favoured synchronising parliamentary and state elections for some time and made a formal, public push in August 2019 when he spoke of the idea of ‘one nation, one election’ (ONOE). In September 2023, a high-level committee headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind was set up to rubber-stamp the idea and suggest a route map for its