Taking a dig at the Congress, he said the grand old party will disappear from the political landscape of the country, like dinosaurs disappeared off the face of the earth.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said that it was unfortunate that the PM had said such a thing as Islam teaches that everyone should be treated equally.
Kovind and committee members Home Minister Amit Shah, former Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Finance Commission chairperson N K Singh, former Lok Sabha secretary-general Subhash C Kashyap and former CVC Sanjay Kothari attended the meeting, as per a Law Ministry statement.
While simultaneous elections have been in the BJP’s manifesto in 2014 and 2019, it remains to be seen if the party will suggest specific amendments to the Constitution and what should happen in the case of a hung verdict and if a government loses majority before its five-year term ends.
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu State Assembly unanimously passed two resolutions on Wednesday, one urging the Union Government to not implement the idea of ‘one nation, one election’ and two, to not to.