Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on November 26, made a fresh pitch for the ‘One Nation, One Election’ system and one voters’ list, stating that elections taking place every few months hinders development.
Addressing the concluding session of the 80th All India Presiding Officers Conference here via video conference, Modi also paid homage to the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, and asserted that India is fighting terrorism now with new policy and new process.
Notably, ‘One Nation, One Election’ has been a key electoral reform that the NDA government has been pushing for in the face of stiff opposition from other parties.
He also emphasised the need for coordination between three wings of the state -- Legislature, Executive and Judiciary -- and said everything from these institutes' roles to their decorum is described in the Constitution.
“In the 1970s, we saw how there was an attempt to breach the dignity of separation of power, but the country got the answer only from the Constitution. After that period of Emergency, the system of checks and balances became stronger and stronger.”
“The Legislature, Executive and Judiciary, all three learned a lot from that period and moved forward,” the Prime Minister said.
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