RAHUL SAYS 'ONE ELECTION' PLAN AN ATTACK ON UNION OF STATES

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the idea of "One Nation, One Election" is an "attack on the Union", as the party stepped up its attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre over its proposal for simultaneous polls for the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies.

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The development came a day after Congress lawmaker Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury refused to be a part of an eight-member panel, headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind, which was formed to study the feasibility of having simultaneous elections across the country.

The Opposition party said the Union government's idea would perhaps cause the "most drastic disruption in Indian electoral process" and the constitution of the panel is a "subterfuge for dismantling the Federal Structure of India". The BJP dismissed the Congress's remarks, and accused the opposition party of "doing everything that holds the country back".