The Wire Staff 
New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Anurag Thakur and Trinamool Congress’s Kalyan Banerjee are among the 21 members from Lok Sabha who will be part of the joint parliamentary committee to scrutinise the ‘One Nation, One Election’ (ONOE) Bills.
According to a Lok Sabha bulletin, PP Chaudhary, BJP MP from Pali, Rajasthan, is set to be the chairperson to the 31-member panel. The names of 10 members from Rajya Sabha will be announced today.
Other prominent members on the panel from Lok Sabha include Congress leader Manish Tewari and Sukhdeo Bhagat and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) MP Supriya Sule. Eknath Shinde’s son Shrikant Shinde will represent Shiv Sena and Azamgarh MP Dharmendra Yadav will represent the Samajwadi Party. The panel also has a member each from DMK, TDP, RLD and Janasena Party.
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Meanwhile, Bansuri Swaraj, C M Ramesh, Sambit Patra, Bhartruhari Mahtab, and Anil Baluni are among the 10 members from the BJP who will be on the panel.
What are the ‘One Nation, One Election’ Bills?
On Tuesday, the government introduced the controversial ONOE bill following a 269-198 division vote. The proposed bill aims to synchronise elections in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies and conduct them simultaneously, for which the government has intended to amend four Articles in the constitution.
The constitution amendment bill, proposes to insert a new article 82A (simultaneous elections to the House of the People and all legislative assemblies) and amend Article 83 (duration of the Houses of parliament), Article 172 (duration of state legislatures) and Article 327 (power of parliament to make provision with respect to elections to legislatures).
In addition, a Bill to amend Section 5 of the government of Union Territories Act and government of NCT was also introduced in parliament for simultaneous elections. Similarly, Section 17 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act will also be amended.
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The opposition has been vehemently opposing the Bills for simultaneous elections as being “anti-constitutional” and “undermining federal structure”. However, the government has said that it is ready to submit the Bills to the parliamentary panel.
The panel will review the Bills and submit its report to Speaker Om Birla on the first day of the last week of the next Budget session.
Notably, the Bill proposes simultaneous elections to be held only after 2034.