Expressing her disagreement with the idea of simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and assemblies, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to the high-level committee on “One Nation, One Election” saying it can be towards the fundamental construction of India’s constitutional preparations.
In a letter to the panel secretary, Banerjee mentioned that in 1952, the primary basic elections have been concurrently carried out on the central and state ranges.
Asserting that the idea isn’t clear and that there are primary conceptual difficulties in agreeing with the committee, she mentioned, “There was such simultaneity for some years. But the coevality has since been ruptured…,” she mentioned. “I regret that I cannot agree with the concept of ‘One Nation, One Election’, as framed by you. We disagree with your formulation and proposal,” she wrote.
The West Bengal chief minister questioned the which means of ‘One Nation’ within the context, and mentioned, “While I understand the meaning of one nation in a historical-political-cultural sense, I do not understand the exact constitutional and structural implication of the term in the instant case. Does the Indian Constitution follow the concept of ‘One Nation, One Government’? I am afraid, it does not.” She mentioned except the “basic enigma” of the place the idea got here from is solved, it is troublesome to reach at any agency view on the catchy phrase.
‘Assembly shouldn’t be pressured to go for untimely basic elections’
She mentioned that states which aren’t anticipating basic elections to the meeting shouldn’t be pressured to go for “premature general elections for the sake of introduction of coevality only: that will be basic violation of the electoral trust of the people who have elected their Vidhan Sabha representatives for full five years. “The central or a state authorities could not full their time period for varied causes, for instance a coalition breaking to a vote of no-confidence,” she mentioned, including that over the last 50 years, Lok Sabha has witnessed a number of untimely dissolutions.
She mentioned recent elections are the one choice in such a state of affairs. “Non-simultaneous federal and state elections are a basic feature in the Westminster system which should not be altered. To paraphrase, non-simultaneity is part of the basic structure of the Indian Constitutional arrangements,” the West Bengal chief minister mentioned.
(With PTI inputs)
