Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said that ‘One Nation One Election’ is a good suggestion, but this will need a change in the Constitution and it is to be decided in parliament. 

He further stated that the Election Commission is fully prepared and is capable of conducting simultaneous elections.

Chandra said, “According to the Constitution, all the elections should be held simultaneously. The parliament elections that have been held since independence, all three of them are simultaneous elections. It is only later that sometimes the Assembly was dissolved, sometimes parliament, which disturbed the schedule. One Nation One Election is a good suggestion but this needs a change in the constitution.”

“An assembly which will not be able to complete the 5-year term in the Assembly will have to think about whether we can abolish it under the Constitution or we need to increase the tenure of parliament for simultaneous election in the country”, he said. 

Chandra further added that, “it is to be decided in Parliament that should we take half of the assembly together and the next time take the other half together, it is to be decided in parliament, but the election commission is fully prepared and the election commission is capable of holding all the elections simultaneously and is ready to elect it only once in 5 years,” he said

Talking about the just concluded election in five states, Chandra said banning the rallies and padyatras was a tough decision. 

“When this election process started which we start from the month of September, October, no one knew that the third wave of coronavirus was to come. But as we approached December, we felt that the Omicron was spreading. The commission discussed with the Union Health Secretary and talked to the Chief Secretary of the State and the State Health Secretary. We found that the COVID is spreading,” he said

“In some of the states, not everyone has been vaccinated, so the commission decided that there will be no physical rally in the first week of the beginning and there will be no padyatras, only a digital rally and at the same time you can do door-to-door campaigning, which is also in restricted numbers. The basic concept of commission is that the vote should be safe and the voter should also be safe,” he said.

Every Saturday Sunday, we reviewed the situation with the Chief Secretary, Health Secretary, and directed the Chief Secretary of election-bound states to vaccinate everyone.

“I would like to tell you that no political party has opposed it. I am thankful to all the political parties, also to the voters that they took our decision correctly and understood it correctly and we had also increased the limit of expenditure to campaign through digital means. So that there can be campaigning in the hybrid model which can be replicated further so that you can also digitalize and physicalize it,” said the CEC.

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