Working president of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) and Minister for Municipal Administration K. T. Rama Rao saw several impediments in the implementation of the much-touted ‘one-nation one-election’ if at all it takes any shape, and wondered whether the Bharatiya Janata Party was buying time to extend the term of the legislatures and push the date of the election in the five States going to polls in December.
He was reluctant to share his views on the possible postponement of elections in Telangana and said the Centre’s intention will be clear only after it places the agenda for the special session of Parliament. “Till that time it is just speculation on the extension of the poll dates in Telangana or other States,” he said in an informal chat with the mediamen here.
He agreed that the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) had submitted a letter in favour of the simultaneous elections earlier, but now it was opposed to it. The ‘one-nation one-election’ is a desperate attempt by the BJP to divert the attention of the people and all this possible alteration in the poll dates was a part of that.
