Six Months After Defeat In Odisha, BJD Questions Integrity Of Poll Process

After the Opposition parties belonging to the INDIA bloc, Odisha's opposition Biju Janata Dal or BJD has red-flagged the unexplainable variances in the voting figures from the Lok Sabha and state assembly elections held earlier this year.

After months of gruelling election campaigns from Lok Sabha polls 2024 to Assembly elections, Sunday marked a relaxing and refreshing weekend for the Gandhi family.

BJP MP PP Chaudhary has been appointed chairperson of the Joint Parliamentary Committee to examine the simultaneous polls bill, the Lok Sabha Secretariat said.

Two bills to amend the Constitution - and allow simultaneous federal and state elections by 2034 - were sent to a 39-member joint parliamentary committee Friday morning.

The Joint Parliamentary Committee to review the One Nation One Election bill, will have eight more members. Now it will have 27 members from Lok Sabha and 12 from Rajya Sabha, instead of 21 members from the lower house and 10 from the upper house.

Striking a combative note, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said that during the recent state elections, the BJP-led alliance demolished the fake narrative spread by the Opposition in the Lok Sabha poll campaign.