India, March 25 -- The Lok Sabha on Tuesday extended the tenure of the 38-member Joint Committee of Parliament examining the two bills that propose to usher in simultaneous state and national elections till the first day of the last week of Parliament's Monsoon session.

The Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill - which proposes amendments and insertion of new Articles that will allow the terms of the Lok Sabha and state assemblies to be synchronised - and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, which seek to align elections in the Union territories of Puducherry, Delhi, and Jammu & Kashmir with the Lok Sabha polls, were introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 17, 2024 amid strong objection from the Opposition benches.

The proposal to...