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Speaking referring to the excessive-stage committee submitting its file on the ‘One Nation, One Election’ proposal, Kumar acknowledged that the ECI would habits elections in accordance with the constitutional provisions.
India’s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) on Saturday (March 16) launched that the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir would be conducted after the Lok Sabha elections.
“We’re but to retain assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. The manner for conducting actual elections has opened since December 23. Right here’s March, and there is snowfall within the insist, hence the quiz of preserving elections does no longer arise at this point,” Kumar was quoted as asserting by the knowledge agency ANI.
“We (ECI) went to Jammu and Kashmir and had been requested by the total political parties there to retain the insist assembly elections with the Lok Sabha polls. After that, we held administrative conferences wherein it was discussed that a selection of security forces would be required to habits insist assembly election with Lok Sabha election in J-Ok,” he acknowledged.
“All political parties requested the ECI to habits an assembly election with Lok Sabha polls, but security agencies suggested us that it might perchance most likely perhaps well no longer be attainable to form security as there was a need for the deployment of substantial security forces. But we are severely pondering of conducting polls in JK after the Lok Sabha polls. JK might perchance be the predominant insist to cross within the election after the Lok Sabha polls,” he acknowledged.
He extra acknowledged that the ECI is “severely” having a discover into conducting the elections in Jammu and Kashmir after the Lok Sabha polls.
Speaking referring to the excessive-stage committee submitting its file on the ‘One Nation, One Election’ proposal, Kumar acknowledged that the ECI would habits elections in accordance with the constitutional provisions.
#WATCH | Delhi: CEC Rajiv Kumar explains over no longer conducting Parliamentary & Assembly polls collectively in J&Ok; says, “For the period of our latest consult with to Srinagar and Jammu, the J&Ok Administration knowledgeable us that two elections cannot be held at the same time attributable to more security requirements.… pic.twitter.com/xfzVt7hKxY
— ANI (@ANI) March 16, 2024
“There could be a provision within the Structure for conducting elections. Article 83(2) of the Structure of India states that the Apartment of the Folks will proceed for five years from the date of its first meeting. There could be a clause in Portion 14 of the RP Act, 1951 that elections for the Parliament be must held six months sooner than the discontinue of the Assembly. So long as this text is there within the Structure and there are provisions for Folks’s Illustration and Folks’s Act, our job is to habits elections in accordance with them,” Kumar acknowledged.
‘How is security alright for parliamentary polls and no longer insist elections,’ questions Farooq Abdullah
National Conference supremo Farooq Abdullah, expressed exertion over ECI’s resolution to no longer habits Parliamentary and Assembly polls simultaneously in Jammu and Kashmir.
The mature Jammu and Kashmir chief minister acknowledged that the pollbody on one hand was planning on conducting Assembly polls in four states that will be coinciding with Lok Sabha elections but J&Ok was denied this likelihood.
“On one aspect the Govt of India most valuable One Nation, One Election and on the different aspect, they are preserving State elections and parliamentary elections in four states, why is this (J-Ok) being denied? When every salvage collectively most valuable elections (in J-Ok) then what is the reason it’s no longer being performed?,” information agency ANI quoted Abdullah as asserting.
#WATCH | On the announcement of Lok Sabha election dates, National Conference Chief Farooq Abdullah says, “On one aspect the Govt of India most valuable One Nation, One Election and on the different aspect, they are preserving State elections and parliamentary elections in 4 states, why is this… pic.twitter.com/zwZDWOL6By
— ANI (@ANI) March 16, 2024
Abdullah, extra questioning the observations made by Kumar, acknowledged, “If they are saying security is the reason, I enact no longer mediate so. How is that security is alright for the parliamentary elections and no longer for the insist elections?”
(With inputs from agencies)
