Advantages:

1. Cost Savings –

The election process is not only tedious and hectic, but also expensive. Each party spends so much of
money in every election. By opting for One India, One Election, we can save huge amount of money
which can be used for other schemes.

If they make only one election for both Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly seats. Government will
use all its expenses to woo voters, rather than using partially based on the region in which election is
to be conducted.

2. Time Saving -

Half of the year is spent by the parties to focus for the next election of one or the other state. Time is
wasted on designing strategies and discussing the actions of the opposition parties.

The name calling and blame game takes a lot of time that could rather be used for productive policy
criticism.

3. Vote Bank Appeasement -

With elections around the corner, most political parties resort to gimmicks to win or destroy the
reputation of other parties. They formulate policies only those which would earn an advantage for
the vote bank and in turn, help in elections. For instance, road construction and infrastructure
development seem to occur only when elections are around the corner. Most importantly, people
are tired of this kind of appeasement.

The fear of losing voters, politicians prevent the passage of long-term useful policies but promote
those which give immediate dividends.

4. Hampers Policy Formulation -

Policies should be formulated without thinking about the votes being lost or won. Policies should be
formulated so that the destitute and downtrodden are able to benefit from its fruits. However, due
to constant elections policy makers are only concerned about winning votes but not about the
welfare of underprivileged.

5. Reducing Vices -

Casteism, communalism, corruption and bias is seen almost every election. This will only stop when
the elections are held in common and the odds of winning or once and for all to lose prevail. The
remaining duration of his career, he would not try to stir up the evil that is destroying the peace of
the nation.

6. Govt. already ruling the states might oppose them, especially the one which have elected
recently, but if they are brought to do work under this situation, they might try to live up to the
promises which happens unlikely, just under the fear of losing the near coming future.

Challenges:
 1. The govt which is newly elected in states, like MP and Chattisgarh, might not find justice and
moreover, they haven’t got enough time to live up to the promises they had made. So
maybe such decision can lead to a situation where a govt policies may find itself extensive if
the govt gets changed because of this.

Expenditure can still be reduced -

By bringing a strict limit on election expenses for all parties.

Transparency in funding can help in making parties accountable and thereby, reducing the
expenditure.

State funded elections will be an even better option in reducing the costs.

3. Politicians may become complacent -

Politicians are kept on their toes when they are regularly worried about the routine
elections where they will be accountable.

They know that they are responsible for the actions of his party members and something
goes wrong, they will be held responsible. This fear is good to keep them under control.

Reducing the number of elections would make them lazy for the rest of the term and
suddenly become hyperactive during the election year.

5. National & State issues -

When both the elections are clubbed, national issues may dominate over state issues and
dictate the mood of both state and national votes. State or local issues may take a backseat,
which would otherwise be crucial.

6. Constitutional Amendments -

To pass these amendments, they require special majorities in Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha. This
would be a challenging task for the Govt. to build consensus among various political outfits,
which have certain biases.

Solutions:

 Elections can be held over a period of time (two months or so), this would give
ample time to provide staff, security and equipment. Logistics can also be managed
to conduct elections without any hiccups.
 Politicians’ complacency can be addressed by having mid-term elections, where
voters in a constituency have the right to reject the minister. This would make
them accountable for what they have promised in the manifesto. Similar solution
was proposed by BJP MP from Philbit, Varun Gandhi. It is also duly addressed
when Zilla Parishad, Mandal Level & Gram Panchayat elections are held at
different times.
 Indian voters are quite intelligent in voting. They wouldn’t do any mistake in
getting carried away by national issues. They would certainly vote for someone
who represents them and voices their problems effectively.
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