 bill no 188 of  2017 the representation of the people (amendment) bill, 2017 byshri gopal chinayya shetty, mpa bill    further to amend the representation of the people act, 1951        be it enacted by parliament in the sixty-eighth year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the representation of the people  (amendment) act, 2017short title and commencement(2) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notificationin the official gazette, appoint43 of 195152 after section 16 of the representation of the people act, 1951, the following section shall be inserted, namely :—insertion of new section16a10"16a notwithstanding anything in sections 14, 14a and 15, the election commission shall, in consultation with the state governments, endeavour to conduct elections to the house of the people and to the legislative assemblies of all states simultaneously"simultaneous elections to the house of the people and legislative assemblies of all states statement of objects  and reasonsgeneral elections to the house of the people and the state legislative assemblies are conducted at varying points of time which invariably involves substantial amount of time, expenditure and heavy deployment of manpower given that, a need has arisen to embark upon some targeted measure to get the elections to the house of the people and all the state assemblies conducted together by making a synergy of time between the tenure of state legislative assemblies with that of the lok sabha in consultation with the state governmentsthe concomitant conduct of elections of the house of the people and the state legislative assemblies would lower the amount of expenditure besides, the local administration which get overwhelmingly pre-occupied in the electoral process by procrastinating all administrative functions, will also receive huge relief and the administrative work shall not suffer not just that, since model code of conduct shall be in effect all through the country for the same period of time, it would be far easier to monitor and give effect to it a huge financial burden arising out of the deployment of para military forces and administrative personnel shall be fairly alleviatedthe bill, therefore, seeks to amend the representation of people act, 1951 with a view to providing that the election commission shall endeavour to conduct elections to the house of the people and to the legislative assemblies of all states simultaneouslyhence this billaugust 10, 2017———— a bill       further to amend the representation of the people act, 1951————(shri  gopal chinayya shetty, mp)gmgipmrnd—2233ls(s3)—27-10-2017