Tirupati, July 06: Vice president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat today said his recent suggestion on holding simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha and assemblies together in a fixed time every five year was positively received by some political parties. Talking to reporters at Tirumala, the abode of Lord Venkateswara, he said the Telugu Desam party supremo and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Laloo Prasad Yadav and the BJP chief M Venkaiah Naidu had welcomed his proposal. The media should bring his recent statement of 'radical change in election mode' made at Indore to the grass root levels so that the masses would know of it, he said. Premature dissolution of legislatures and frequent elections were causing huge financial burden to the exchequer, he said. Earlier, Shekhawat and his family members offered prayers at the Lord Venkateswara temple at the hill shrine.

Bureau Report