Simultaneous elections will lead to the mixing of national and state-level issues, which does not serve the electorate’s best interests
About The Author
S. Y. Quraishi is the former Chief Election Commissioner of India and the author of An Undocumented Wonder: The Making of the Great Indian Election
Though inherent to the Constitution, Indian secularism has travelled a long distance from pseudo-secularism to ‘sickularism’ in recent decades
Separate elections give space to regional parties to find their political voice. It seems inappropriate to subjugate the people’s mandate at the local level to the whims of the politics beyond, writes former CEC Dr. S.Y. Quraishi
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