New Delhi: The Congress on Friday strongly opposed the idea of 'One nation, one election' and said that it goes against the guarantees of federalism and the basic structure of the Constitution.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge demanded that the 'high-powered committee' formed in this regard be dissolved.
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Kharge, in a letter to the Secretary of the committee Niten Chandra on 'One nation, one election', wrote that former President Ram Nath Kovind, who heads the panel, should not allow his persona and the office of the former President to be "abused" by the central government to "subvert" the Constitution and Parliamentary democracy.
"The Indian National Congress is strongly opposed to the very idea of 'One Nation, One Election'. For the sake of maintaining a thriving and a robust democracy, it is imperative that the entire idea must be abandoned and the high-powered committee dissolved," Kharge said in his letter.
