Law panel report unlikely in winter session

ONE NATION ONE POLL: The Commission is giving final touches to the report; Parliament session to begin on Dec 4

- PREETHA NAIR

THE Law Commission of India is unlikely to submit its final report on 'One Nation One Poll' before the winter session of Parliament, which begins on December 4, according to highly placed sources.

The Law Commission, headed by Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, is in the final stages of preparing its report on holding simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and state assemblies across the country.

Former President Ram Nath Kovind's had on Monday asserted that India should hold simultaneous parliamentary and state assembly polls, and that all political parties should support the idea.

Kovind is the chairman of the eight-member high-level committee set up in September to examine the feasibility of holding simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha, state assemblies and local bodies. The Modi government's move to set up the Kovind panel had kicked up a political storm with opposition parties alleging that the government may push the bill in Parliament. Most of the opposition parties are not in favour of 'One Nation One Poll'. They claim it is an attack on the federal character of the nation.