{"id":11318,"date":"2017-11-27T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=11318"},"modified":"2017-11-27T11:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:11:32","slug":"simultaneous-polls-prevent-unwanted-burden-on-nations-resources-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/simultaneous-polls-prevent-unwanted-burden-on-nations-resources-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Simultaneous polls prevent unwanted burden on nation&#8217;s resources: PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,<br \/>\nEmphasising on the need for simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that policy, planning process and implementation becomes easier for the government as nation&#8217;s resources do not witness an unwanted burden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Currently, many nations have simultaneous polls system and the dates for the elections are fixed. People know about it in advance. Benefit of it is that the country is not always on election mode. The planning process, policy and implementation is more efficient and the country does not face unwanted burden,&#8221; he said in his address in a event to mark the National Law Day.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that there is a huge economic and resources burden for the country, Modi said a cost of Rs 1,100 crore was incurred during the 2009 general polls while Rs 4,000 crore was incurred during the 2014 general polls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government cannot take decisions so easily once the model code of conduct gets implemented,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said India earlier has also witnessed simultaneous elections, but due to various reasons, the system got out of track.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Emphasising on the need for simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that policy, planning process and implementation becomes easier for the government as nation&#8217;s resources do not witness an unwanted burden. &#8220;Currently, many nations have simultaneous polls system and the dates for the elections are fixed. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11320,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions\/11320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}