One Nation One Election: JPC’s first meeting today, chairman said- ‘will take suggestions from everyone’

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The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on One Nation, One Election is holding its first meeting on Wednesday. This session, to be chaired by JPC Chairman PP Chaudhary, will include briefing of officials of the Union Law and Justice Legislative Department.

The main focus of this committee is to examine the Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill, 2024 and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024.

The job of the JPC is to assess the feasibility of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. Apart from this, it will also explore coordinating elections in Union Territories like Puducherry, Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir with the national elections. The committee has 39 members: 27 from the Lok Sabha and 12 from the Rajya Sabha.

Key members and participation

Prominent people from various political parties are expected to attend the meeting. These include Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Congress, Sanjay Jha from JD(U), Srikant Shinde from Shiv Sena, Sanjay Singh from AAP and Kalyan Banerjee from TMC. However, BJP’s CM Ramesh and LJP’s Shambhavi have informed the chairman about their inability to attend the meeting due to unavoidable circumstances.

The Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha by Law Minister Arjun Meghwal after a debate that lasted nearly 90 minutes. It was approved after a division vote, with 269 MPs supporting it while 198 opposed it. Following this, the Bills were referred to the committee for further scrutiny.

Expansion of Committee Membership

The committee, which initially had 31 members, has now grown to 39 as more political parties showed interest in participating in the legislative review process. Former Union ministers Anurag Thakur, Parshottam Rupala, Manish Tewari as well as first-time MPs like Bansuri Swaraj and Sambit Patra are also part of the committee.

BJP MP Sanjay Jaiswal said frequent elections disrupt national stability. He said the initiative, led by former President Ram Nath Kovind, aims to restore the system that existed for 18 years after the Constitution was framed. He attributed the changes to Indira Gandhi’s personal ambitions.