'One Nation One Election' campaign aims to postpone elections in five states: Prashant Bhushan
BJP is fearing defeat in upcoming assembly elections in these five states. So, they are going to postpone the assembly polls till the general election in 2024 in the name of ONOE, he said. Senior Advocate Prashant Bhushan BHUBANESWAR: Renowned Supreme Court lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan alleged that the central government has been campaigning for the ‘one nation one election’ (ONOE) only to postpone upcoming assembly elections in five states. The assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram are due later this year. “ONOE cannot be implemented in a Parliamentary democracy like India because in our system a government can fall in midterm when it loses majority and a fresh government forms,” Bhushan told reporters here on Sunday. However, if the one nation one election will be implemented, in such a situation, Presidential rule will be imposed, which is against democracy, he claimed. “That means we are switching from a democratic system to a p...