How many kinds of burden the country faces due to various polls. People of many political parties tell me that something should be done about electoral reforms,” Modi said.
He said these issues could be debated in the centenary birth year of Upadhyay.
He asked the party delegates, close to 1700 in numbers, to organise seminars in the Upadhyay’s centenary birth year over the issue, saying let there be churning and nectar come out .
The reforms should not be guided by fixed ideas, he said, adding it would not be good if they are carried on the basis of only Prime Minister s suggestions. It should not happen.
Time has come to see to it what good can be added to the electoral system and what can be removed from it.
We have to think how the rights of the common man can be strengthened and roots of democracy strengthened. If we can do it then it will go a long way in making democracy healthy, the Prime Minister said.
In the past, Modi has spoken in favour of holding the Lok Sabha and state assembly polls simultaneously as continuous cycle of elections hamper government s work.
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