NEW DELHI: With both the Prime Minister and the President throwing their weight behind the idea of simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assembly elections, the Centre has now sought comments from the public, including MPs and MLAs, on the feasibility of the idea. Senior officials say this shows government wants to give the move a serious shot.The Prime Minister's MyGov platform has sought the opinion of common citizens, Parliamentarians , Members of Legislative assemblies and councils, constitutional experts, academics experts, bureaucrats, social media influencers, Think Tanks and all other interested people to give their considered view on the subject, as per a post made on the MyGov platform on Wednesday evening. This comes just a day after President Pranab Mukherjee backed Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's idea of simultaneous polls."The next General Election to the Lok Sabha is scheduled for 2019. Elections for the Vidhan Sabhas of 5 States are scheduled for 2017, for 13 States in 2018, for 9 States in 2019, for 1 State 2020 and the remaining are scheduled for 2021. Several structural changes will need to be done in case a decision is made to conduct simultaneous election, including possibility of Constitutional amendments to Articles 83, 172, 85 and 174 to streamline the process," the government has said in the online post on MyGov.The government has asked citizens to deliberate if it is desirable to hold simultaneous elections and the pros and cons of such an exercise. Many other tricky issues have been flagged by the Centre - like what would be the fate of state assemblies who scheduled tenure either ends before or after the proposed date of holding the simulations elections and should the term of the Lok Sabha and assemblies be fixed or what would happen in case by-elections are necessitated in-between terms. The Centre has also flagged for public comments the key issue of what would happen in case the ruling party or a coalition loses majority in-between term, either in the Lok Sabha or state assemblies.The Centre has said that there is a considered view that simultaneous elections will not only keep alive the enthusiasm of voters, but will also result in huge savings to the public exchequer as well as avoiding repetition of administrative effort. "It is also expected to control the expenses of political parties.Simultaneous elections will also avoid repeated enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct which affects administrative actions by the government," the Centre has said in the MyGov post. It has mentioned that simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies were organized in the years 1951-52, 1957, 1962 and 1967 in the country. "Thereafter, however, the schedule could not be maintained and the elections to the Lok Sabha and the Vidhan Sabhas have still not been realigned," the Centre has pointed out.