The case for decoupled elections

Both the EU and India follow a similar practice of separating elections and there are good reasons to keep it that way

It’s perhaps an accident of history that India became a country. A stray bullet could have killed Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey, for example. It was pragmatic on the part of the founding fathers to compose a Constitution that is federal in nature since India is a union of states more diverse than the European Union (EU).

The EU has 27 countries — India has 28 states and 8 Union Territories. The EU has 24 official languages. India recognises 22 languages in its Eighth Schedule, and there are at least 35 more languages seeking recognition.

India has roughly 3.5 times