New Delhi: The amendments required in the Constitution to turn the concept of one nation-one election into reality will be difficult for the BJP-led NDA government to pass in the current circumstances.

To implement the recommendations of the high-level committee headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind on one nation-one election, the government may have to make 18 amendments in the Constitution. The NDA has the support of 293 members in the 543-member Lok Sabha and 119 members in the Rajya Sabha.

The screw will get stuck here

To pass a constitutional amendment, the proposal must have a simple majority in the Lok Sabha as well as the support of two-thirds of the members present and voting in the House. If all 543 members of the Lok Sabha are present on the day of voting on the proposal for constitutional amendment, then it will need the support of 362 members.

The opposition INDIAA has 234 members in the Lok Sabha. The NDA has 113 members in the Rajya Sabha and can add six nominated members to it. While the INDIAA has 85 members in the Upper House. If all the members of the House are present on the day of voting, then the two-thirds will be 164.

Congress, AAP, BSP and CPI(M) opposed

Some constitutional amendments will also need the approval of state assemblies. Out of the six national parties, only BJP and National People's Party are in favour of simultaneous elections, while Congress, AAP, BSP and CPI(M) have opposed it. The number of parties that supported simultaneous elections before the Kovind Committee in the Lok Sabha is 271. Whereas the number of 15 parties that opposed it in the Lok Sabha is 205.