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The Opposition accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of ruling “like a dictator”. They were responding to a report by The Indian Express said that the two other election commissioners had objected to panel decisions about the special intensive revision of electoral rolls 14 times in 10 months.
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Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had raised objections on matters such as the registration of new voters, deletions and restoration of electors, filing of appeals against voter inclusion, and custody and security of the electoral rolls, the newspaper reported.
Reacting to this, the Congress said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Kumar “together have caused great damage to the country’s democracy”. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav urged the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognisance of the matter. Read on.
The Supreme Court referred the petitions challenging the constitutionality of a 2023 law that governs the appointment of members of the Election Commission to a larger bench. Although Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma initially disagreed on the Union government’s demand to refer the matter, they eventually ordered that it be placed before Chief Justice Surya Kant so that he could form a constitutional bench.
During the hearing, Datta said that the law “does not appear to ensure an independent...