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New Delhi: The sudden resignation of Election Commissioner (EC) Arun Goel has left Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar as the sole member of the Election Commission of India (ECI), raising concerns about the constitutionality of a single-member commission...
The election commission lost another member last month when EC Anup Chandra Pandey retired...
Seshan case in 1995 and the S.S. Dhanoa case in 1991 upheld the constitutionality of a single-member election commission while stressing the importance of more than one commissioner..
We cannot overlook the fact that when the Constitution makers provided for a multi-member election commission, they were not oblivious of the fact that there may not be agreement on all points, but they must have expected such high-ranking functionaries to resolve their differences in a dignified manner, it said.. S.S. Dhanoa case ..
The Supreme Court, in its judgment, said the appointment of the CEC is a must but not the appointment of ECs, and the President could abolish the EC posts if he decided there was no work for the ECs or the commission could not function with them...
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