BJP National General Secretary Sunil Bansal on Sunday addressed an important meeting on “One Nation, One Election” at Delhi BJP office in the presence of Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva and State General Secretary (Organisation) Pawan Rana.
Present at the meeting were state general secretaries MP Yogendra Chandolia and Kamaljeet Sehrawat, state general secretary Vishnu Mittal, former state president Satish Upadhyay, Delhi government ministers Pankaj Singh and Ravindra Inderraj, Delhi convener of One Nation One Election Gajendra Yadav, co-conveners Ashok Goel Devrha and Yogendra Lakra, along with other officials.
Speaking to the media after the meeting, Sachdeva said, “One Nation, One Election” is the need of the country. He mentioned that during workshop, they received valuable guidance from Bansal and held discussions on making “One Nation, One Election” a national campaign. Sachdeva stated that frequent elections hinder the country’s development. If we look at the data from the last 30 years, there is an election in some state every year, and every five years, state assembly elections are held along with Lok Sabha elections, which complicate the electoral process. These repeated elections lead to wastage of time, money, and resources, he added.
Talking about the last Lok Sabha elections, he said one crore (10 million) personnel were involved throughout the process. Hence, if we want to make India a developed nation, we must save not only financial and material resources but also time. Every time the Model Code of Conduct is enforced, development work comes to a halt. Sachdeva said this campaign will be taken to every household in Delhi and a public awareness movement will be launched to explain how society and the nation can benefit from it.
He emphasised that this is not the first time the country is talking about One Nation, One Election - it existed from 1952 to 1967, and it was only after the fall of the government in 1968 that the system began to falter. Hence, this campaign is a national necessity, Sachdeva said.