The proposed simultaneous elections to Parliament, State Legislative Assemblies and Local Self Government Institutions is against democracy, federalism and basic structure of the Constitution of India, observed All India Lawyers Union (AILU), while opposing the One Nation One Election policy.
The AILU national committee vice president Sunkara Rajendra Prasad and Joint Secretary Narra Srinivasa Rao, in a statement in Guntur on Friday, said that the Union Government has unilaterally formed a committee under former President Ram Nath Kovind to report on the proposal. To appoint a former President to head a committee under the Cabinet itself is denigration of office of the President, they said.
The action of the Union government on such an issue of wide ramifications and implications without consulting the Opposition parties is undemocratic and authoritarian, observed Mr. Srinivasa Rao.
