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The Centre on Saturday issued a notification for constituting a high-level committee, headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind, to give a report on holding simultaneous Lok Sabha and State Assemblies polls which it said was in “national interest” to avoid massive public expenditure and “disruption in development work” owing to the country perpetually being in election mode round the year.The move endorses Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s long-held view of One Nation, One Election which he has been articulating since 2014 onwards. The seven other members of the...