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'Don't look at 'one nation one election' as agenda of one person or party'

New Delhi, January 17At a meeting at the NITI Aayog with leading economist on January 10, Prime Minister Narendra had appealed for the need to build public opinion on the issue of simultaneous polls. On Saturday, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar will inaugurate a seminar on 'one nation one election' being hosted by a Sangh Parivar affiliated think tank in Thane, in Maharashtra.Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, a think tank and training institute near Mumbai, will host a two-day seminar on the issue of 'one nation one election' over the weekend. "Simultaneous elections is the major democratic reform that the nation has waited for decades, and a nationwide discourse on the issue for consensus building is the need of the hour," Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha member and party vice president, said. Sahasrabuddhe heads the think tank, and the Centre has recently appointed him as the president of the Indian Council of Cultural Research (ICCR).The think tank is ..