President Pranab Mukherjee indicated that he is in favour of holding all elections together, an idea that was mooted by PM Narendra Modi recently.
According to a report, when a Class 11 student asked the President on the spending on elections and whether it would be good to hold all polls at once, he replied, “The Election Commission can also put in their idea and efforts on holding the polls together and that will be highly beneficial.”
Mukherjee, while teaching students in the school inside the President’s Estate in Delhi as part of the second edition of his ‘Pranab Sir’s class’, also said India is “substantially free” from the globally witnessed menace of homegrown terrorism as citizens possess “ethnicity in mind and have faith in pluralism”.
The President also spoke about the worrisome development of “political assassinations” in India and its neighbourhood adding that despite these instances “we have had a stable political regime”.
The special session was held to observe ‘Teachers Day’ with students of Class XI of the Delhi government-run Dr Rajendra Prasad Sarvodaya Vidyalaya during which Mukherjee said “secularism is part of the life” for Indians.
