As talks about a possible one nation, one election gains momentum, Law Commission Chairman Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi has said that its report on simultaneous polls will take more time.
"Still, some work is going on on simultaneous elections. We have not finalised the report. There is no timeline for finalising it," Justice (retired) Awasthi said on Wednesday.
The Law Commission, which is constituted every three years, advises the government on complex legal issues.
According to the procedure, all law panel reports are submitted to the Union law ministry, which then forwards those to the ministries concerned.
The issue of simultaneous polls has been pending with the law panel for years.
The previous Law Commission had suggested three options to hold simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls but said several points remained to be addressed.
In a public appeal issued along with its draft report on holding the mammoth exercise, it had said though many impediments in achieving synchronisation of the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections have been addressed, some of the points would "still remain to be pondered upon".
It had asked all the stakeholders to suggest whether holding simultaneous elections, by any means, would tinker with democracy, the Constitution's basic structure or the country's federal polity.
It had said various committees and commissions have made suggestions to deal with the situation of a hung Parliament or Assembly, where no political party has the majority to form a government.
These panels have proposed that the prime minister or a chief minister may be appointed or selected in the manner in which a speaker of the House is elected.
Earlier this month, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy had said that Assembly polls in Telangana would be held as per schedule as no decision has been taken yet on holding simultaneous elections.
He said the central government has not taken any decision so far as the high-level committee headed by former President Ramnath Kovind to examine simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha, state Assemblies and Panchayats has not submitted its recommendations.
It will take time for the report to come, he had said.
The government had set up a committee under the leadership of former president Ram Nath Kovind to explore the feasibility of 'one nation, one election'.
The committee will explore how the country can return to having simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assembly polls, as was the case until 1967.
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