31 Members, 90-Day Term: What We Know About ‘One Nation, One Poll’ Committee

New Delhi: 

A maximum of 31 MPs will form the joint parliamentary committee to which the Constitution (129th) Amendment Bill – which proposes changes to the Constitution to allow the conduct of simultaneous federal and state elections – will be referred, sources told NDTV late Tuesday evening.

The bill was tabled by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal in the Lok Sabha this afternoon, prompting hours of bitter arguments before a division vote – unusual at this stage of a bill – was conducted.

This first hurdle was cleared easily, as expected; 269 MPs voted for its consideration by Parliament, while 198 said ‘nay’. And, also as expected, the bills were then sent to a JPC for “wider consultation”