As per report , Law Minister , Shri Sadananda Gowda , told
Times of India on 08 June 2016 :
" The Prime
Minister is very keen to hold elections to assemblies and Parliament together .
A committee was set up a month-and-a-half ago and has been given a deadline of
three months to complete its report "
Earlier , a committee of secretaries had studied the
issue and proposed that polls to assemblies whose terms were expiring 6 months
before the 2019 LS elections as well as those doing so 6 months later , be
brought together
YEAR-WISE HISTORY
of STATE ASSEMBLY
ELECTIONS :
# 2013.................... 9 States
# 2014.................... 8 States
# 2015................. 2 States
# 2016................. 5 States
# 2017.................... 5 States
REASONS
BEING ADVANCED IN
SUPPORT OF SIMULTANEOUS ELECTIONS
:
# Unending State
elections impede governance as the Code of Conduct is brought into force which
prevents announcements of policy decisions that could be seen to influence
voters
# Political
exercise is hugely distracting and there is a tendency to read the results as
referendums on the Centre , even though the issues at stake are essentially
local and State-specific
# Election
Commission believes that the cost of conducting simultaneous elections , at estimated
Rs 9,000 crore , could well be much less than the cumulative costs of holding
State elections as an annual occurrence
MY TAKE :
Conducting simultaneous elections for ALL STATE
ASSEMBLIES and LOK SABHA , is not only possible but it can be
done on a SINGLE DAY , as per my following suggestion , sent to Shri Narendra
Modiji on 06 Nov 2014 :
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VotesApp
( from my blog dated 18 Dec 2012 )
* An Android app which can
be downloaded from Google Play / Android Zoom / GetJar and the official web
site of Election Commission of India
* It will be pre-loaded on
220 million Aakash tablets which Govt of India plans to distribute to
students
* It will also be
pre-loaded on those Smart phones ( to be called, “ Dharati “ ? ), which Govt of
India plans to distribute free to 400 million “ poor “ Indians , before 2014
National elections
* All tablet / smart phone
manufacturers will be encouraged to pre-load VotesApp
* Using this app , a voter
can register at Election Commission web site, where he will enter the same data
which he has submitted for his Aadhar card, including Aadhar card number
(Unique Identification No)
* All of these details
will be verified by Aadhar database
* Obviously , those who
have not obtained their Aadhar card , will not be able to use VotesApp . They
will need to visit nearest polling booth
* Upon correct
verification , Aadhar Database will permanently link the person’s Aadhar number
with the mobile number from which registration is done, and issue a
Password
* An under aged person
will not be allowed to register
* A person will be able to
vote only from that mobile number
* After login on first
screen, user will be asked to select one option from,
#
Panchayat Election
# Municipal
Election
#
State Assembly Election
# Lok-Sabha
Election
* Upon selection, user
will be presented with the list of candidates contesting , from which , he can
select only one by ticking a check-box.
There will be also a
choice , labeled “ None “ ( NOTA )
* A long press on a
candidate’s name will display details of his declared assets as also his
criminal record
* After ticking /
selecting a candidate, voter will click on “ VOTE “ button,
whereupon his vote gets registered and VotesApp gets de-activated
* Once a voter registers
on Election Commission web site , he cannot go to a polling booth and vote
physically
* In less than one year ,
Govt of India will recover the cost of 220 million Aakash tablets and 400
million” Dharati “ smart phones , through this customized / personalized /
shrinking of EVMs ( Electronic Voting Machines ) to a hand-held device.
And imagine the
millions of man-hours saved !
* And the beauty is , no
one can capture this booth , or conduct exit polls !
* What next ? Election
Commission “licensing “ this App to other countries ?
HOW WILL IT
HELP ?
* No need for 930,000 polling booths / EVMs / Ink / Papers etc
Every voter's own mobile becomes a miniature EVM !
Any registered Voter can vote from anywhere in the World !
* Nor any need to deploy 1,100,000 people to conduct the polls
* No need for millions of Police / Military personnel
* No need for months of advance preparations, across entire country
* Voting can be completed in just ONE day - instead of over 6 weeks -
and results can be declared next day !
* Voting could be 95 % or more !
* No worry for booth-capture
* No bogus voting ( Bio-metric ID from built-in camera )
* No duplicate voting ( Self-destruct after single usage )
* No worry for any terrorist attacks
* Enormous saving of time for Voters
* No need to declare a public holiday - costing thousands of crores
worth of production
* Central Government will save, at least , Rs 2,000 Crores .
* For the Central Government , a potential to earn Rs 20,000 crores , by
enabling 15 million
Indian businesses to advertise to 814 million voters
thru this mobile
VotesApp , sharply targeting by Gender / Age / Marital
Status / City / Street
/ Education / Income Tax paid / Employed or
Jobless ..etc
* No need for Central Government to stop taking even routine decisions
( due to Model Code of Conduct )
If a tiny country like Estonia ( population 1.6 million ) can elect its Members of Parliament thru a VotesApp type mobile App , why can't we ?
Already 900+ million Indians have mobiles - all of which , will soon become Smart Phones
As far as designing / developing of VotesApp is concerned , it is NOT a Rocket Science
Any IT / E-Comm Start Up , should be able to develop
VotesApp in 3 months
Can you think of a better way for " E-delivery of Service
" ?
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13 June 2016
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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