According to sources January 29 had witnessed the issue of having early polls in 2018. President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have opined to have simultaneous polls for Assemblies and Parliament. Meanwhile this has triggered the speculations that general elections for Lok Sabha, which is scheduled to take place in 2019, may be advanced for 2018.
Further in his address to the joint sitting of Parliament on Monday, President Ram Nath Kovind has made a pitch to conduct simultaneous polls to the Assemblies and Parliament. Later Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also opined the same at a meeting of NDA leaders.
According to reports it was stated that, Modi told that frequent elections could be a halt to
progress and it is also a financial burden to public exchequer. However, in
reality, it is highly unlikely to conduct simultaneous polls for Assemblies and
Lok Sabha across the country as several states have different terms of offices
for their governments.
