NEW DELHI: A day after Gyanesh Kumar was appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner, Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would endeavour to conduct the final hearing on a bunch of petitions challenging the validity of a Parliament-enacted law that altered the composition of the SC-devised panel for the selection of the CEC and ECs….
NEW DELHI: Gyanesh Kumar will take over as the 26th Chief Election Commissioner tomorrow – on a day the Supreme Court will hear a petition challenging the 2023 law under which his appointment was made by the Centre late on Monday night.The appointment, which is the first under the new law, was made by a…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader and Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday criticised the appointment process of the next chief election commissioner (CEC), calling it “disrespectful and discourteous” for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Arjun Ram Meghwal to have made a “midnight decision”.He objected to the exclusion of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) from…
