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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. One of the central motifs of the past decade of governance under Indian Prime Minister has been the embrace of policy measures that seek to apply uniform solutions to disparate policy dilemmas facing the country. These measures, often termed One Nation policies, are motivated by a desire to replace the existing patchwork of state-specific policies, regulations, and regimes with measures that are identical across the length and breadth of India. There are numerous examples of such One Nation policies being propagated and, in several cases, implemented in the eleven years since this Government came to power. For instance, in 2016, Parliament passed a series of constitutional amendments to introduce a new Goods and Services Tax (GST), which introduced a unified value-added tax in place of state-specific levies. This reform, known informally as One Nation, One Tax, had been debated and discussed for nearly two decades and was widely touted as an important precursor to forging a common market across India’s twenty-eight states. In a similar vein, the government rolled out a new initiative to allow Indian citizens to take advantage of subsidized food rations irrespective of their state of residence.


This scheme, commonly termed One Nation, One Ration Card, was intended to increase access to welfare benefits, especially for the millions of internal migrants in India without a fixed place of residence. Earlier this year, the government announced the launch of a new online portal that will provide students, faculty, and researchers across the country’s public higher education institutions with open access to international scholarly journals and articles under a scheme it has dubbed One Nation, One Subscription. Most notably, the government recently signalled its intention to pursue a monumental One Nation policy that has been long discussed but only recently outlined in detail. This measure, known as One Nation, One Election, would do away with India’s current system of staggered elections for state and national assemblies, replacing it with a framework of simultaneous elections. The proposal, which has featured in many of PM’s speeches in the past, was advanced by a high-level committee (HLC) established by the government in 2023. (351 words) [Excerpts from Does ”One Nation, One Election” Make Sense for India? by Milan Vaishnav, Caroline Mallory, and Annabel Richter Published on July 28, 2025]


Which of the following Constitution Amendment Bill deals with empowerment of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to implement simultaneous state and national elections

Options

A

One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment

B

One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment

C

One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Amendment

D

One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Amendment

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Correct Answer :

Option B

One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment

Solution :

The correct option is One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment.


Explanation and Context:

The passage discusses various "One Nation" policy initiatives undertaken to unify regulations and frameworks across India. Among these initiatives, the proposal for One Nation, One Election aims to conduct simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha (national assembly) and State Legislative Assemblies across the country.


To implement simultaneous elections nationwide, specific constitutional amendments are required to empower the Election Commission of India (ECI) and align the terms of state legislative assemblies with the national Parliament. The Constitution Amendment Bill introduced/associated with facilitating this framework and empowering the ECI for simultaneous elections is the One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment Bill.

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