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Simultaneous polls not practical: CPI
Communist Party of India (CPI) on Friday said simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and State Assemblies, though ideal, is not practical, while the ruling TRS in Telangana State favoured the idea. Instead, States where elections are due within six months of each other should be clubbed together and polls can be held there simultaneously, CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said.Â
​Hyderabad: Communist Party of India (CPI) on Friday said simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and State Assemblies, though ideal, is not practical, while the ruling TRS in Telangana State favoured the idea. Instead, States where elections are due within six months of each other should be clubbed together and polls can be held there simultaneously, CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said.
Sudhakar Reddy, a former Lok Sabha member, saw "political angle from BJP" in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement favouring simultaneous polls and said the lead party of NDA believed that it can derive political dividends all over the country with him in the saddle. "Our opinion is: it looks ideal but it is not practical in India," he told PTI.
"They (BJP) are raising this issue for the first time because they think that with Narendra Modi as Prime Minister they will get support for the BJP up to Panchayat level, ward level... throughout the country and in that they can capture the entire country," he said. "How can they dissolve constitutionally elected Assemblies for five years," he asked.
