Union Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said frequent elections are not good for the country and efforts will be made to install the “one nation, one election” system in the next five years.
Singh said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) believe that the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls should be held simultaneously across the country. “In five years, we will try our best to make provisions for one nation, one election,” the defence minister said, addressing a rally in support of Vijay Kumar Dubey, the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll candidate from Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh.
Singh heaped praise on Modi for his leadership and taking the country to new heights.
“When India speaks today, the world listens,” he said, adding that even politicians in Pakistan are praising India, but those in the Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) do not understand this.
“They (SP and Congress) are opposing Modi,” he said.
Hitting out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Singh said his great grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, grandmother Indira Gandhi and father Rajiv Gandhi were prime ministers.
“Rahul Gandhi says he has seen the system very closely. He says the system that was there was anti-backward, anti-poor. He is talking about the governments of his great grandfather, grandmother and father, and saying the system during their times was anti-backward and anti-poor.
