Lucknow: BSP chief Mayawati supported the proposal of One Nation One Election after it was approved by the Union Cabinet, while Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has raised many questions.
BSP chief Mayawati posted on Instagram and wrote that our party’s stand is positive on the approval given by the Union Cabinet to the proposal to conduct Lok Sabha, Assembly and local body elections simultaneously in the country under the system of ‘One Country, One Election’, but its objective must be in the interest of the country and the people.
At the same time, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav raised questions and said that the assembly elections of Maharashtra, Jharkhand and by-elections of UP should also have been announced. He said that if ‘One Nation, One Nation’ is in the form of principle, then please clarify whether the elections of all the villages, towns, municipal bodies from the Pradhan to the Prime Minister will also be held simultaneously or will it be done as per your convenience to make a system of victory and defeat of the government on the pretext of festivals and weather?
Akhilesh said that when BJP brings down the elected government of a state in the middle, will the elections of the whole country be held again? If President’s rule is imposed in a state, will the elected government of the people have to wait till the next general elections to come back or will elections be held again in the whole country? Has any time limit been set for the constitutional amendments that will have to be made to implement this or is this also just a slogan thrown to put it on the back burner for the future like women’s reservation?
He asked whether this plan is to change the results by privatizing the elections? Such apprehension is arising because tomorrow the government will say that it does not have the human and other necessary resources to conduct elections on such a large scale, that is why we are giving the work of conducting elections on contract (to our people).
The SP chief said that the public’s suggestion is that the BJP should first conduct such elections within its party at the district, city, state and national levels and then talk about the whole country. In the end, the public is also asking why the election of your own national president has not been held yet, whereas it is heard that ‘one person, one opinion’ prevails there. Is there a fight of ‘two persons, two opinions’ in the weakened BJP now?
