The proposed meeting between the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 'One Nation, One Election' and Supreme Court judges will not take place, sources said.
The Committee had earlier proposed to meet the Chief Justice of India and Supreme Court Judges on October 6 for "informal discussions" on simultaneous elections. However, the Supreme Court has declined the proposal of the Committee, according to sources.
Earlier in the day, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, in a press conference, had criticised the Committee's move to meet the Supreme Court judges by saying that it was a violation of the separation of powers. Sibal stated that such a meeting had never happened in the history of the country.
The Joint Parliamentary Committee is examining the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024 and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, which seek to facilitate simultaneous elections.
The committee, headed by BJP MP P.P. Chaudhary, has been conducting consultations with political parties, legislators, constitutional experts and other stakeholders as part of its examination of the two Bills. The committee has previously stated that it has also consulted former Chief Justices of India, former Supreme Court judges and other legal experts on the constitutional implications of simultaneous elections.