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Simultaneous elections: Ex-CJI Lalit flags legal challenges if Assembly terms severely reduced

Parliamentary committee proceedings are privileged and details of exchanges between members during meetings are not made public.

Former Chief Justice of India UU Lalit

Former Chief Justice of India UU Lalit, who appeared before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on ‘One Nation One Election (ONOE)’ Bill on Tuesday, was said to have made some important suggestions including staggering of the entire process and also cautioning about the legal challenges that severely curtailed Assembly tenures could invite.

Justice Lalit had been called to depose before the committee as an expert to help it understand whether the Bill would pass the Constitutional muster. It is learnt members had an engaging conversation on a range of clauses and issues associated with the Bill and the discussion went on for almost three hours.

Parliamentary committee proceedings are privileged and details of exchanges between members during meetings are not made public.

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Former Law Commission of India chairperson Ritu Raj Awasthi also appeared before the committee and is learnt to have summarised the paper he had submitted to the committee earlier. In his view, the Bill does not violate the Constitution or the federal structure of the country.

A high-level committee, headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind, was constituted by the Modi government on ‘One Nation One Election’ and it had, in its voluminous report, strongly recommended simultaneous polls.

Subsequently, the Union Cabinet accepted the committee’s recommendations and the government tabled two Bills in Lok Sabha.

Speaker Om Birla constituted a 39-member Joint Parliamentary Committee headed by BJP MP and former minister P P Chaudhary.

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