Bengaluru, May 17 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC President DK Shivakumar has strongly opposed the Central Government's proposed 'One Nation One Election' initiative, calling it a "politically motivated" attempt to centralise power which would deal a serious blow to the federal structure by weakening all states.

Expressing his views at a dialogue on 'One Nation One Election' organised by the Joint Parliamentary Study Committee at a private hotel in Bengaluru, he claimed that the plan was a politically motivated power-centralising scheme that would seriously damage the federal structure by weakening the states, and it posed a danger to the democratic system, accordign to a release.

As KPCC President and as Karnataka Deputy CM...