This December 10, 2025, picture shows a meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Simultaneous Elections. Image: X/@ppchaudharybjp
On Thursday (December 11, 2025), the tenure of the Joint Committee of Parliament examining the Bills seeking to introduce simultaneous polls in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies was extended.
Committee Chairman PP Chaudhary moved a motion in the Lok Sabha to extend the tenure of the Joint Committee on the Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill, 2024 and the Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2024 till the first day of the last week of the Budget 2026 session.
The motion was passed by a voice vote in the Lok Sabha.
Since its formation last December, the committee has met constitutional experts, economists, Law Commission Chairman Dinesh Maheshwari, among others.
Mr Chaudhary said on Wednesday (Dec 10, 2025) that the report on the laws would take some time as the committee had to listen to many stakeholders.
“The report will take time. We have to listen to many stakeholders. It should be done after hearing all the stakeholders because it is a very large-scale electoral reform,” he said after a committee meeting at the Parliament complex.
Senior Supreme Court lawyer Kapil Sibal, who is also an independent member of the Rajya Sabha, appeared before the committee as an expert on Wednesday (December 10, 2025) to answer questions on the bills.
Published – 11 Dec 2025 22:08 IST
