Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Tuesday introduced the One Nation One Election Bill (Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill 2024) in the Lok Sabha. After this this bill was also approved in the House. A total of 269 votes were cast in favor of the bill and 198 against it. Speaking to ANI on the Central Government’s eagerness to bring ‘One Nation One Election’, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said, “This is not the wish of the government but this is the wish of the people of the country. How many times do you and I have to face the fact that every month there is an election somewhere, every month somewhere the code of conduct is implemented…”
Scindia said, the hope and desire of the people is that this wastage of money should be stopped… The Prime Minister is working to realize the hopes and aspirations of the people of the country. Be it the issue of removal of Article 370, be it the issue of ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’, be it the issue of women’s reservation in Parliament or the issue of ‘One Nation, One Election’. The Prime Minister is laying such a foundation that many generations to come will remember this tenure. The ideology of taking the country forward rapidly from a turning point will remain an example for the entire world.”
Scindia said on the questions being raised on EVM
Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said, “If Congress is raising questions regarding EVM, then Congress should see the reaction of Samajwadi Party and TMC. When will Congress understand that the path it has adopted is neither the path that the people of the country want nor the path that the opposition alliance partners want? Now the condition of Congress has become such that not only the people of the country have left them but also the INDI alliance partners are leaving their hands and abandoning them. You and I do not need to say anything to the Congress because the people of the country are telling the Congress, the people of Haryana and Maharashtra have told the Congress. “The parties within the INDI alliance are telling the Congress to ‘wake up now from the sleep of Kumbhkaran’.”
