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It won’t be unreasonable to state that the Indian polity is perennially in an election mode. Barring a few exceptional years within a normal 5 year tenure of the Lok Sabha, the country witnesses, on an average, elections to about 5-7 State Assemblies every year. A serious need to evolve a mechanism to end this frequent election cycles has been expressed by various stakeholders since quite some time now. Is India headed towards a system of simultaneous state Assembly and Lok Sabha elections every five years? There seems to be gathering momentum for the proposal. More recently, the Hon’ ble President of India and the Hon’ ble Prime Minister strongly pitched their support for holding simultaneous elections at public forums.