1. The Union Cabinet approved bills to implement "one nation, one election."

2. A high-level committee led by former President Ram Nath Kovind made recommendations on simultaneous polls.

3. The recommendations include:

• Developing a legally-tenable mechanism to restore the cycle of simultaneous polls.
• Holding Lok Sabha and state legislative assembly elections together in the first stage.
• Synchronizing elections to municipalities and panchayats with Lok Sabha and state assemblies in the second stage.
• Notifying the date of the first sitting of the Lok Sabha after a general election as the "appointed date."
• Limiting the tenure of state assemblies formed after the "appointed date" to the period ending with the subsequent parliamentary polls.
• Holding fresh elections for the Lok Sabha in case of a hung House or no-confidence motion.
• Preparing a single electoral roll and elector's photo identity card (EPIC) by the Election Commission.
• Making logistical arrangements for simultaneous elections, including procurement of equipment and deployment of personnel and security forces.