Chennai | Congress leader and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh o Friday said that BJP led NDA government’s plan of ‘One Nation, One Election’ Plan is a debacle in successive elections.
Addressing an event in Chennai, Jairam Ramesh said “By supporting ‘One Nation, One Election’, you are denying yourself the ability to enforce some accountability of the executive. It is the debacle in successive elections in the last 12 months but has made the current Prime Minister more aware of the concerns of farmers, unemployed, rural landless labour.”
By supporting ‘one nation one election’, you are denying yourself the ability to enforce some accountability of the executive. It is the debacle in successive polls,in the last 12 months that has made PM more aware of concerns of farmers and unemployed etc: Jairam Ramesh,Congress pic.twitter.com/W5pTdWyJTS
— ANI (@ANI) July 14, 2018
He further added that “If you have had One nation, One election, you elect somebody and then for the next five years you have no opportunity whatsoever of making your voice heard. We are a system in which our voice is heard only through elections.”
“You have to suffer for five years if you have one nation one election,” the Congress leader said while criticising the proposal.
Earlier Former Vice President Hamid Ansari also criticised the idea of ‘ One Nation, One Election’ saying it is an ‘ Assault tom Democracy’. Meanwhile, responding to the government’s queries on the proposal of ‘One Nation One Election’, the Election Commision has listed that an additional fund of 4,554.93 crores will be required to carry out the entire procedure.
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