One Nation One Election?
“ We the People...” _____________________________________________ The First Edition One Nation One Election? From the Desk of Amaan Ojha Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel once said, "Every citizen of India must remember that..he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain...duties." The most important one of those duties as an Indian citizen is to vote. When the first votes were cast to ballot in our Independent nation, it was October 1951. It took over a hundred days from the 25th of October 1951 to the 21st of February 1952 to complete this exercise of electoral endeavours. Today the panel to explore ‘One-nation, One poll’ is underway as India sets to decide if it will be a part of a small club of countries that hold concurrent polls. Those countries are Belgium, Sweden and South Africa. 'One Nation, One Election' refers to the idea of simultaneously holding the Lok Sabha polls and the elections to various state asse...