'One Nation, One Election' panel report will be discussed in Parliament: Pralhad Joshi

Jaipur: Union minister Pralhad Joshi on Friday said the report of the Ram Nath Kovind panel on 'One Nation, One Election' will be discussed in the public domain and Parliament.

The central government has constituted a committee headed by the former president to explore the feasibility of holding simultaneous polls for the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies.

Much like the nectar that was churned out after 'Samudra Manthan', 'amrit' will emerge out of the brainstorming on the issue, the Union minister of parliamentary affairs said here.

"The committee has just been formed... The report of the committee will come, and the report will be discussed in the public domain and Parliament," Joshi said, asking why this worries the opposition.

The BJP leader also said that the opposition parties do not have faith in the people of the country.

"India is the world's largest democracy. India is called the mother of democracy. New topics that come up in an evolving democracy should be discussed. We have not said that anything will happen from tomorrow itself," the minister told reporters at the Jaipur airport.

"If there is an idea, there must be a discussion," he added.

Joshi said Lok Sabha and assembly elections were held simultaneously in the past, due to which there was a good environment for development in the country.

The minister said when a government is formed at the Centre and elections go on at different places, it creates a problem in the decision-making process.

Joshi, the BJP's election in-charge for Rajasthan, arrived in Jaipur on Friday for the launch of the party's 'parivartan yatra'. The first of the four parivartan yatras will be launched by party president J P Nadda on Saturday from Sawaimadhopur.