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Parliamentary panel on simultaneous elections gets extension
Aug-12-2025

The Parliamentary committee examining two bills to implement the system of holding Lok Sabha and assembly elections together was granted a fresh extension till the last week of the Winter session to present its report.

BJP member and chairperson of the Joint Committee of Parliament (JCP) P P Choudhary moved a motion, which was approved by the House through a voice vote. Moving the motion, Choudhary said, ‘That this House do extend time for the presentation of the Report of the Joint Committee on-the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024 and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024-upto the first day of last week of the Winter Session, 2025’. 

The two Bills on implementing simultaneous polls were introduced in Lower House on December 17 last year after a recommendation by a high-level committee chaired by former President Ram Nath Kovind. The aim of these Bills is to enable the general elections for the union territory legislative assemblies to coincide with the general elections of the Lok Sabha, as an integral part of the government’s policy to conduct simultaneous elections throughout the nation.






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