Naidu for simultaneous polls to avoid "deviation, diversion"

Thu, 26 September 2019

12:59

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday made a strong pitch for holding simultaneous polls across India to avoid "deviation, dilution and diversion" of the public work. Naidu made the remarks at a public event in Pune.

"Frequent elections in the country is a matter of concern, because the moment elections come, everyone has to follow the pre-line formula," he said.

"Election, selection and correction and the model code of conduct for one and half months. That is why will be in the interest of the country to have one broad simultaneous election across the country within 15 days so that there is no deviation, no dilution and no diversion of the public work," Naidu said in his address. -- PTI

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