https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=30690 Speakers challenged the constitutionality and motive of the simultaneous-elections proposal, asserting that synchronising Lok Sabha and state assembly polls would truncate the five-year term of state legislatures, diminish state authority, and undermine the federal structure and state-specific governance. They acknowledged the Centre's administrative rationale-cost and logistical efficiencies-but warned that aligning electoral cycles could enable centralisation of power, threaten pluralism, and risk reclassifying states as centrally governed territories. en-us Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:01:03 +0530 Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:01:03 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=30690 Speakers challenged the constitutionality and motive of the simultaneous-elections proposal, asserting that synchronising Lok Sabha and state assembly polls would truncate the five-year term of state legislatures, diminish state authority, and undermine the federal structure and state-specific governance. They acknowledged the Centre's administrative rationale-cost and logistical efficiencies-but warned that aligning electoral cycles could enable centralisation of power, threaten pluralism, and risk reclassifying states as centrally governed territories. News - Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:01:03 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=30690