The first meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on two bills related to One Nation One Election will be held on January 8, 2025, as per source.
The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, popularly being referred to as the Bill on “one nation, one election”, will enable simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha as well as state and Union territory assemblies.
During the winter session, Parliament had passed the motion on forming the panel, consisting of 39 Committee members – 27 from Lok Sabha and 12 from the Rajya Sabha.
The Committee will submit its report to the House by the first day of the last week of the next Parliament session.
The panel consist of BJP leaders PP Chaudhary, Anurag Singh Thakur, and Parshottambhai Rupala, Congress leaders Priyanka Gandhi and Manish Tewari, TMC’s Kalyan Bannerjee, NCP (SP)’s Supriya Sule among others from Lok Sabha as members. From Rajya Sabha Ghanshyam Tiwari, Bhubaneswar Kalita and K. Laxman of BJP and Randeep Singh Surjewala and Mukul Balkrishna Wasnik of Congress and Sanjay Kumar Jha of JDU and V. Vijayasai Reddy of YSR Congress among others are the members of the Parliamentary Committee.
In the recently concluded winter session of parliament, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal moved the motion to introduce the Constitution amendment Bill in the Lower House, where 269 members have voted in favour of the introduction of the bill and 198 against it.
