'One Nation One Election' Will Ensure Uninterrupted Governance: Uttarakhand CM Dhami To JPC

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Last Updated:May 22, 2025, 13:18 IST

Dhami powerfully advocated for the implementation of this initiative, which helium said would beryllium large for hilly states similar Uttarakhand

The committee gathering was held successful Dehradun, the superior metropolis of Uttarakhand.

On Wednesday, the associated parliamentary committee examining the One Nation One Election program moved from Mumbai to its adjacent destination, Uttarakhand. The committee gathering was held successful Dehradun, the superior metropolis of Uttarakhand. Apart from respective officials and the Uttarakhand assembly talker who came earlier the committee, authorities main curate Pushkar Singh Dhami came to the gathering successful enactment of the authorities that is being proposed.

Dhami powerfully advocated for the implementation of this initiative, which helium said would beryllium large for hilly states similar Uttarakhand, whose demography is overmuch antithetic erstwhile compared to the plains. “Uttarakhand is simply a authorities wherever the wrath of quality is evident during the monsoons. Between June and September, it is intolerable to clasp immoderate elections here," helium said. The CM besides added that the months of April to May could beryllium a bully clip to clasp polls successful the state. However, helium said, predominant elections guarantee that respective departments instrumentality a backseat, affecting governance.

Dhami is said to person quoted that successful the past assembly election, the expenditure ran into Rs 162 crore, whereas the 2024 Lok Sabha predetermination officially outgo Rs 212 crore. “If we person some the elections together, it volition assistance the authorities utilise its wealth better. If we spell by the sheer numbers, we volition prevention 40% of the disbursal if some elections are held together. This 40% disbursal saved tin beryllium utilized for the improvement of the authorities and to instrumentality Uttarakhand’s publication towards Viksit Bharat," helium said.

“The past 5 years person seen much than 175 days of productive enactment mislaid owed to the imposition of the exemplary codification of behaviour and elections, but that is besides not including the Panchayati Raj elections; else, the fig would beryllium overmuch larger," Dhami pointed out. “Given the pugnacious terrain of the state, it is beauteous hard for voters to enactment enthusiastic to travel and ballot for each election. It is simply a pugnacious task to behaviour the predetermination successful a authorities where, successful definite locations, it takes the predetermination teams adjacent to 3 days to reach."

“Elections, aggregate times, bash not lone origin a interruption successful governance but besides interaction 1 of the astir important aspects of governance, which is education," said Dhami. He argued that Uttarakhand does not person excessively overmuch backstage infrastructure, and astir of the schooling is successful government-run schools. “When we person elections, we request to propulsion retired teachers from schooling duties. 45,000 teachers from 16,000 authorities schools get deployed for elections, which really causes a important dent successful the continuity of education," the Uttarakhand main curate added.

Speaking successful the aforesaid code arsenic Maharashtra lawman main curate Eknath Shinde, who says that determination is nary menace to the beingness of determination parties successful lawsuit of this inaugural getting implemented, Dhami besides argued that radical are smart, and they cognize precisely what and who they person to ballot for. People contiguous recognize what nationalist issues are and what determination issues tin be, and are susceptible of voting separately. “We should not undermine the contented of our radical to formed their vote," Dhami is said to person told the meeting.

The sheet was announced during the past wintertime league of Parliament aft the Centre said it was keen connected sending the measure for parliamentary scrutiny aft its instauration successful the Lok Sabha. It is headed by erstwhile curate and Lok Sabha MP PP Chaudhary and has 39 members, including Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

The sheet has respective eminent lawyers similar MPs Manish Tewari, P Wilson and Kalyan Banerjee. Other absorption MPs who are portion of the sheet are Supriya Sule from the NCP (SP), Randeep Surjewala and Mukul Wasnik from the Congress, and Anil Desai from Shiv Sena (UBT).

On the ruling side, members see erstwhile national curate Anurag Singh Thakur, Baijayant Panda, Bhartruhari Mahtab, and Anil Baluni from the BJP. Shrikant Shinde from the Shiv Sena and Harish Balayogi from the TDP, among others, are besides portion of the JPC.

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