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As a CEC Gyanesh Kumar’s term will be from 18 February 2025 to 26 January 2029.
The 1988 batch IAS officer and current Election Commissioner Dnyanesh Kumar has been appointed as the 26th Chief Election Commissioner of the country. He will take over the post on Wednesday.
They are the first CEC to be appointed under the new law. His term will remain till 26 January 2029. The current CEC Rajiv Kumar retired on 18 February.
During the 4 -year tenure of Gyanesh Kumar, elections will be held in 20 states and 1 one union territory (Puducherry). It will start from Bihar and the final election will be held in Mizoram.
Apart from Gyanesh Kumar, Vivek Joshi has been appointed as Election Commissioner. He is the Chief Secretary of Haryana and a 1989 batch IAS officer. At the same time, Election Commissioner Sukhbir Singh Sandhu will continue in his post.
These appointments were approved in a meeting held on 17 February under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Home Minister Amit Shah and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi also attended the meeting.
Rahul refused to consider the names
According to media reports, a list of 5 names was given for the new CEC, but Rahul refused to consider the names.
After Thak, Rahul Gandhi issued a decent note. In this, he had said that the matter is pending in the Supreme Court, so this meeting should not have been held.
At the same time, the Congress had said- we cannot work in ego. The meeting was to be postponed so that the Supreme Court could decide soon.
Rahul wrote- The decision to appoint at midnight is disrespectful
Rahul Gandhi wrote on X- There was a meeting on the appointment of the next Chief Election Commissioner (CEC). In this, I gave a note to the Prime Minister and the Home Minister. It was written in it- the basic thing is that the Election Commission is independent. There is no interference of the executive in the appointment process of Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners.
As the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, it is my responsibility to maintain the ideal of Babasaheb Ambedkar and the leaders who build the country. The decision to appoint CEC of PM and Home Minister at midnight is disrespectful. The decision to appoint CEC was taken when the matter is in the Supreme Court and it is to be heard within 48 hours.
The Chief Justice was removed from the committee that appoints CEC. This is a violation of the order of the Supreme Court. The Modi government has raised the concerns of crores of voters over the honesty of our election process.
Singhvi said- Government should wait till the hearing in the Supreme Court Congress leader and senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi said that the CEC selection committee is a violation of the Supreme Court’s decision. By removing CJI from the committee constituted for selection of CEC, the government has made it clear that it wants control, not the credibility of the Election Commission.
Singhvi said that there is a petition in the Supreme Court on the new law made for the appointment of CEC and other EC. The case is heard on 19 February. This was just 48 hours of case. The government should have approached the Supreme Court for early hearing of the petition.
How many commissioners can be in Election Commission No number has been fixed in the Constitution regarding how much the Election Commissioners can be. Article 324 (2) of the Constitution states that the Election Commission may have the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners. It depends on the President how much their number will be. After independence, the Election Commission had only the Chief Election Commissioner in the country.
On 16 October 1989, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s government appointed two more Election Commissioners. This made the Election Commission a multi-member body. These appointments were first made from the 9th general election. At that time it was said that this Chief Election Commissioner was done to cut off on RVS Perry Shastri.
On 2 January 1990, the VP Singh government amended the rules and again made the Election Commission a member body. On October 1, 1993, the PV Narasimha Rao government again approved the appointment of two more Election Commissioners through the ordinance. Since then, the Election Commission has two Election Commissioners with the Chief Election Commissioner.
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