'ONOE' Bills 12th to be sent to joint parliamentary panel since 2015

It will require support of two-thirds of the members present and voting

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NEW DELHI: The two Bills that lay down the legal framework to hold simultaneous polls in the country are the latest in the series of draft laws to be referred to a joint committee of Parliament since 2015.

The two Bills referred together to the joint panel are the 12th since 2015 to be sent to a committee of the two Houses.

With the Opposition in the Lok Sabha dubbing the measures as an attack on federalism, the government referred them to a joint committee of the Parliament for detailed scrutiny and wider consultations.

The Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill lays down mechanisms to hold Lok Sabha and Assembly polls together.