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Punjab: SAD urges JPC to recommend dissolution of Article 356

Ludhiana, June 14 (UNI) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today urged the Joint Parliamentary Committee to recommend dissolution of Article 356 which it said was the root cause for disruption of simultaneous elections in the country.
The SAD delegation, led by Dr Daljit Singh Cheema and Balwinder Singh Bhundar briefed the JPC that in case Article 356 was not done away with the election schedule would be disrupted again.
The delegation also opposed the insertion of article 82 A clause 5 which empowered the ECI to defer elections of legislative assemblies. “This can be misused against opposition parties anytime,” it asserted.
Cheema and Bhundar also demanded a solution to constant bye elections. They said that byelections were turning out to be the root cause of election malpractices. They proposed that if a legislator expired, the party should be given the right to nominate another leader of the party for the remaining period.
The SAD delegation also highlighted the federal concerns of the bill. They said the bill would cause more harm than improvement.
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