 bill no  211 of  2017 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2017 by shrimati meenakashi lekhi, mp a bill further to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-eighth year of the republic of  india as follows:—short title1  this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2017 2  after article 324 of the constitution, the following article shall be inserted, namely:—insertion of new article 324aelection commission to conduct elections to the house of the people and legislative assemblies of all states simultaneously statement of objects and reasonsat present, general elections of  lok sabha and state legislative assemblies are being held in different years and, in many cases, even at different periods of the same year the tenure of both lok sabha and the state legislative assemblies have been fixed at five years by the constitutionpresently, the cost of holding elections for lok sabha and legislative assemblies of states and union territories has been pegged at rupees four thousand and five hundred crores by the election commissionsuggestions are being received from certain quarters that a scheme should be devised whereby the general elections to the lok sabha and the state legislative assemblies are held simultaneouslythe rationale given is that this will result in huge saving to the public exchequer, avoidance of replication of efforts on part of administration and law and order machinery in holding repeated elections and bring considerable savings to political parties and candidates in their election campaignsanother argument in support of the above suggestion is that now asynchronous lok sabha and legislative assembly elections including bye-elections result in prolonged enforcement of  model code of conduct with its concomitant adverse impact on development and welfare programmesunder the parliamentary democracy envisaged in our constitution, situations may arise from time to time, where the five years term of the lok sabha may have to be either curtailed or extended the same would be the situation in relation to the state legislative assemblies the proposal for simultaneous elections, however, would involve having fixed term for the union and state legislative bodieshence this billnew delhi;meenakashi lekhinovember 23, 2016 lok  sabha————abillfurther to amend the constitution of india————(shrimati meenakashi lekhi, mp)gmgipmrnd—2442ls(s3)—08-12-2017