Lucknow: A day after the Central government constituted a panel headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind to explore the possibility of "one nation, one election", Samajwadi Party Supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday challenged the BJP government to first conduct simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly elections in UP, reports Dynamite News correspondent.
“An experiment is done before doing every big work, on this basis we are suggesting that before conducting ‘One Nation One Election’, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, this time along with the Lok Sabha elections, should conduct the Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, the state having maximum parliamentary and assembly seats,” wrote Akhilesh Yadav on X (formerly Twitter).
The former Chief Minister said that simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly elections in most populous state would not only test the capability of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the public opinion but the BJP would also come to know of “how eager the people are to remove them from power.”
