The mandate of the current CEC Rajiv Kumar ends on February 18. After that, Dnyanesh Kumar will take over.
The meeting led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the name of Gyanesh Kumar as the next commissioner in the elections. His mandate will remain until January 26, 2029.
He will take over after the retirement of the current CEC. Rajiv Kumar retired on February 18.
At the same time, Vivek Joshi was appointed commissioner in the elections. He is the chief secretary of Haryana and an officer in the 1989 lot. At the same time, the commissioner in the elections Sukhbir Singh Sandhu will continue in his post.
The Minister of the Interior, Amit Shah, and the opposition chief Rahul Gandhi attended the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Modi. On the recommendation of this panel, a new CEC has been appointed.
According to media reports, a list of 5 names has been given for the new CEC. But Rahul refused to consider the names.
After the meeting, Rahul Gandhi published a decent note. In this, he had said that the case was pending before the Supreme Court, so this meeting should not have been held.
At the same time, the congress said – we cannot work in the ego. The meeting was to be postponed so that the Supreme Court could decide soon.
Singhvi said that head of congress and principal defender Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the CEC selection committee was a violation of the Supreme Court decision. By removing the CJI of the committee formed for the selection of the CEC, the government clearly indicated that it wanted control, not the credibility of the electoral commission.
Singhvi said there was a request to the Supreme Court on the new law made for the appointment of the CEC and others. The case was heard on February 19. It was only 48 hours of housing. The government should have approached the Supreme Court for an early hearing of the petition.
The Supreme Court will hear the petition contesting the appointment of the CEC and the EC on February 19 on the petition contesting the appointment of the EC. The case was to be heard on February 12, but the case was not registered. The main lawyer Prashant Bhushan then raised the case before the bench of judge Suryakant and judge N. Kotishwar Singh.
Prashant had declared that CEC Rajiv Kumar retired on February 18. In such a situation, the government can appoint a new CEC, so the court should hear it soon. On this subject, the court gave the date of February 19 and said that in the meantime, if something happens, it will be subject to the court’s decision, so it is not a question of concern.
The case is linked to petitions contesting the constitutionality of the chief election commissioner and another law on the commissioner in the elections, 2023.
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March 2, 2023: Verdict of the Supreme Court – the constitution bench of 5 members of the Supreme Court on the appointment of the CEC and the EC in its judgment said that a jury will be appointed by the Supreme Court on the appointment of CJI in the selection committee. He will understand the Prime Minister, opposition head in Lok Sabha and the CJI. Earlier, only the central government chose them.
This committee will recommend the names of the CEC and the EC to the President. After that, the president will approve. Then they can be appointed. The court also declared that this process will remain in force until the Parliament promulgates a law concerning the appointment of commissioners in the elections.
December 21, 2023: The new bill is linked to the appointment of election commissioners
The central government has brought a new bill linked to the appointment, service, conditions and mandate of the CEC and the EC. Under this, the commissioners in the elections will be appointed as a panel of three members. He will understand the Prime Minister, the head of the opposition to the Lok Sabha and a Minister of the Cabinet of the Union. Cji was excluded from this panel. The bill was adopted in the two houses during the winter session on December 21, 2023.
The opposition had filed an objection to the new law, on this law, the opposition parties said that the government weaken it by providing a bill against the order of the Supreme Court Constitution bench. Congress worker Jaya Thakur tabled a request at the Supreme Court.
The petition has indicated that articles 7 and 8 of the law violates the principle of independent and fair elections because it does not provide an independent mechanism for the appointment of commissioners in the elections. In the middle of this dispute, the center appointed Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu as an election commissioner in March 2024.
There may be so many commissioners at the Electoral Commission, no number has been set in the Constitution concerning the number of commissioners in the elections. Article 324, paragraph 2, of the Constitution stipulates that the electoral commission may have the chief elections commissioner and other commissioners in the elections. It depends on the president how many will be their number. After independence, the electoral commission had only the chief election commissioner of the country.
On October 16, 1989, the government of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi appointed two other commissioners in the elections. This made the electoral commission a multi-member organization. These appointments were first made from the 9th general elections. At that time, it was said that this chief election commissioner had been made to cut the VR Perry Shastri.
On January 2, 1990, the Vice-President Singh government changed the rules and again made the electoral commission a member organization. On October 1, 1993, the PV Narasimha Rao government again approved the appointment of two other commissioners in the ordinance. Since then, the Electoral Commission has had two commissioners in the election commissioner in the elections.
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