Brut India asked a Supreme Court lawyer whether it makes sense to hold national and state elections at the same time.
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00:30You may bring down the cost of elections, but will it increase costs to the democracy?
00:53Is it better to have simultaneous or one-time elections than to lose money through bad decisions of bad governments?
01:23No assembly can be dissolved before five years. Then you will be forcing an unhappy marriage on the people in the case of hung verdicts. Is that the place where we want to go?
01:53I don't see anything really going through. Without amending the constitution, this is not possible. If you amend the constitution, then those amendments will be liable to judicial review and you will come up with the question as to whether those amendments destroy the basic structure of the constitution.