Former President Ram Nath Kovind, who heads the high level committee examining the idea of holding simultaneous elections — which the Union government has termed ‘One Nation, One Election’ — asserted that polls being held concurrently at the Union and State level is in national interest, but on November 21, the Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury called it a “party agenda”.
“I am requesting all the political parties to cooperate as this is in the national interest. No political party has got anything to do with it,” Mr. Kovind, who is on a private visit to Rae Bareli, told reporters on Monday night. “Holding simultaneous elections will be beneficial for the public as the revenue saved will be used for development work,” the former president added.
