One Nation One Election

Constitutional and Legal Provisions

• Article 324 allows superintendence, direction and control of elections to be vested in an Election Commission.
• Article 326 allows selections to the House of the People and to the Legislative Assemblies of States to be on the basis of adult suffrage.

Arguments in Favour of Simultaneous Elections

• One Nation, One Election would reduce the cost of holding elections, and limit all elections to a single event.
• The occurrence of elections somewhere or the other almost all the time, according to some, leads to the Model Code of Conduct getting in the way of the government announcing projects ....