The Centre on Saturday formed an eight-member committee chaired by ex-president Ram Nath Kovind to suggest changes to Constitution for simultaneous polls. It has been reported that the list of the members includes names like Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, ex-MP Ghulam Nabi Azad and more.
The committee is set up to explore the feasibility of "one nation, one election", a decision by the Centre that opened the possibility of conducting the Lok Sabha polls with a string of state assembly elections awaited this year.
In view of the aforementioned possibility, two former chief election commissioners today expressed their views and said that the idea of having synchronised polls to Lok Sabha and state assemblies was good but a legal framework and roadmap are must to ensure a smooth conduct of the gigantic exercise.
