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Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led committee on Thursday named Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu as election commissioners, said Opposition leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury...
A selection committee comprising PM, Chowdhury and Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal met on Thursday noon to finalise the two names...
"In this committee, govt has the majority....One Mr Kumar from Kerala and one Mr B. Sandhu from Punjab have been selected as Election Commissioners," ANI quoted Chowdhury as saying...
This left Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar as the sole member of the poll authority.. Before the new law on the appointment of CEC and ECs came into force recently, the election commissioners were appointed by the President on the government's recommendation and as per custom, the senior-most was appointed as CEC...
Clause 2 of Article 324 of the Constitution states that the Election Commission shall consist of the Chief Election Commissioner and such number of other Election Commissioners, if any, as the President may from time to time fix...
