NEW DELHI: With both the Prime Minister and the President throwing their weight behind the idea of simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assembly elections, the Centre has now sought comments from the public, including MPs and MLAs, on the feasibility of the idea. This comes just a day after President Pranab Mukherjee backed Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's idea of simultaneous polls. "The next General Election to the Lok Sabha is scheduled for 2019. It has mentioned that simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies were organized in the years 1951-52, 1957, 1962 and 1967 in the country. "Thereafter, however, the schedule could not be maintained and the elections to the Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabhas have still not been realigned," the Centre has pointed out.

Source: Economic Times September 07, 2016 16:15 UTC