Simultaneous polls for States and Centre? An idea as bad as demonetisation

The noise and chaos of India's democracy is what keeps it alive and kicking

The Prime Minister and other members of the government have spoken about the desirability of holding elections to the state assemblies and the parliament together. Their view is that this will aid governance and help save expenditure on holding elections. In this Business Standard special, the authors take a closer look at the idea and whether it is constitutionally sound or not.

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A nation that has an election ocurring every six months or so, in some constituent state or the other, has now got used to a semi-annual IPL, the Indian Political league. Every campaign has seen its soldiers, generals