A Parliamentary Standing Committee is exploring the feasibility of simultaneously conducting the Lok Sabha and State Assembly polls, and has met three regional parties in West Bengal to discuss its feasibility, a Committee member said here on Tuesday.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice under the chairmanship of E.M.S. Natchiappan was on a visit to the city to discuss this and had already held meetings with the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) in this regard.
“Almost every year, we have Assembly elections in some State or the other. For at least three months, no development work can be done due to the enforcement of the model code of conduct. ,” Mr. Natchiappan said and added that polls were held simultaneously till 1967.
“Further meetings are scheduled with nationally registered parties like the Congress, the BJP, the Communist Party of India, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and other parties,” Committee member and TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Shekhar Ray told media persons.
