While almost all the major opposition parties in the country are strongly opposing the proposal put forth by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for holding simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha and the state assemblies in the entire country, Telangana Rashtra Samithi headed by chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao came in strong support of it.
The proposal was resisted by the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the DMK, Shiv Sena, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party.
Even the ruling Telugu Desam Party headed by N Chandrababu Naidu in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh opposed the move, stating that it was anti-Constitutional.
However, KCR on Sunday wrote a letter to Law Commission chairman B S Chowhan expressed readiness of the TRS for simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and the State Legislature in the country.
In his letter, the chief minister observed that four to six months of time was being spent in conducting elections each time to the Lok Sabha and the State Legislatures.
The entire State and district level administrative and security machinery was becoming very busy with conduct of elections twice in a period of five years as per the current practice.
He stated that imposition of model code of conduct for such a long period was also hampering development and welfare activities being undertaken by the State government.
Further, huge amount of money – public money as well as of the political parties/candidates was being spent twice in a period of five years.
“In this backdrop, TRS is strongly in favour of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies,” the Chief Minister stated in his letter.
Critics say KCR’s letter once again reaffirmed the suspicion that he is going the NDA way, rather than the federal front.
