In the 1960s, unstable non-Congress state governments began to fall, disrupting the pattern of joint elections. But it was Indira Gandhi’s decision to call for early polls in 1971 that effectively ended simultaneous polls. What prompted that call?
Singh championed the cause of farmers and as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, he was the architect of land reforms and also took a lead in formulation of a law that brought great relief to rural debtors
Time for ?the mother of all democratic reforms? has come. Don?t look at it as a gimmick. It is a way of regulating measures for various irresponsible tendencies emerging in the Indian politics. Every democrat should support the idea of simultaneous polls to purge the politics from unscrupulous elements