'Undemocratic idea, must be abandoned': Congress opposes 'one nation one election'

In a letter to the secretary of the committee on one nation, one election, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge demanded that the "undemocratic" idea be abandoned and the high-powered committee formed to study it be dissolved. The panel is headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind.

In the letter, Kharge urged the former president "not to allow his persona and the office of the former president of India to be abused by the Union government to subvert the constitution and parliamentary democracy in this country".

“The Indian National Congress is strongly opposed to the very idea of ‘One Nation, One Election’,” he said in the letter to Niten Chandra, the secretary of the committee. "For the sake of maintaining a thriving and a robust democracy, it is imperative that the entire idea must be abandoned and the high-powered committee dissolved."