"Anti-Federal & Impractical": MK Stalin Slams BJP's ‘One Nation, One Election’ Bill (image:x.com/mkstalin)

Chennai: DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has strongly criticised the Central government’s push for a “One Nation, One Election” (ONOE) in a social media post on Monday, December 16. He asserted that the INDIA bloc would resist the “anti-federal & impractical” legislation crushing India’s democracy and diversity.

Taking to X, Stalin wrote: “#INDIA will resist the anti-federal & impractical “One nation one election” as it will push the country into the perils of unitary form of governance, killing its diversity and democracy in the process.”

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#INDIA will resist the anti-federal & impractical “One nation one election” as it will push the country into the perils of unitary form of governance, killing its diversity and democracy in the process.

The Union BJP government seeks to push it with an ulterior motive of… pic.twitter.com/PslpjWoRwM

— M.K.Stalin (@mkstalin) December 16, 2024

The BJP-led Union government, Stalin said, sought to push the legislation with an “ulterior motive” of conducting a Presidential form of election, which is against the spirit of our Constitution.

“The proposed bill, if passed and implemented, will remove the legal checks and balances put in place in the form of periodic elections by the framers of our great Constitution to prevent the country from slipping into anarchy and totalitarianism,” Stalin argued. He has also emphasised that State elections would lose their political significance and regional sentiments and diversity would be destroyed.

Stalin then criticised the BJP of proceeding with the proposal despite lacking majority to pass such a “critical legislation.” He stated that the legislation threatened to “alter India’s polity forever.” He called the move as “a brazen attempt” to settle scores and divert attention from the BJP’s failures to address key issues impeding the country’s progress.

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Calling for a united front against this move, he urged, “All the democratic forces must unite & fight tooth and nail against this abomination imposed in the garb of electoral reform, to save India, its diversity and the Constitution.”

A constitutional amendment bill for conducting simultaneous polls for Lok Sabha and assembly elections is likely to be introduced in Parliament on Tuesday and could be transferred to a joint committee of the two Houses.