Polls time-consuming and expensive: Proposed Bill

Frequent poll code imposition impacts the functioning of services, curtails the involvement of manpower from their core activities

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA New Delhi, December 14

THERE IS AN imperative need for holding simultaneous elections for various reasons as polls have become expensive and time-consuming, according to the proposed bill being brought to implement the ambitious 'one nation, one election' plan.

According to the constitution amendment bill listed for introduction in the Lok Sabha on Monday, the imposition of a Model Code of Conduct in several parts of the country that are poll-bound puts on hold the entire development programmes and causes disruption of normal public life.