One Nation One Election

• Prime Minister initiated the idea of One Nation, One Election (ONOE) with the motto of conducting the Lok Sabha and the state assembly’s elections together, once in five years.
• However, the initiative will need a constitutional amendment, which will have to be ratified by 50 percent of the states.

Background

• Simultaneous elections are not new to India. They were the norm until 1967. But following dissolution of some Legislative Assemblies in 1968 and 1969 and that of the Lok Sabha in December 1970, elections to State Assemblies and Parliament have been held separately.
• The Niti Aayog came out with a paper in ....