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Kumar is the first CEC that is designated under the new law and its mandate would be held until January 26, 2029, days before the EC is expected to announce the schedule of the next election of Lok Sabha
Supreme Court of India. (File photo/PTI)
The Supreme Court was set on Wednesday on May 14 to listen to a lot of pleas that challenge the appointment of the Chief of Elections Commissioner (CEC) and the electoral commissioners (EC) under Law 2023.
A Bank of Judges Surya Kant, data from Dipankar and Ujjal Buyan set the date after lawyer Prashant Bhushan urged the bank to grant an urgent hearing in the matter.
Bhushan, which appears for an NGO of the petitioner that challenges the appointment process, said the issue was covered by the Bank of the Constitution of 2023.
Judge Kant told Bhushan that the court will address the matter on May 14 canceling a special bank issue on that date.
Bhushan said he thought the matter is in the Bank’s Day business, they are urging the court to take him to the top of the Board.
Justice Side said the bank will take several partial issues that involve land acquisition on Wednesday.
On March 19, the Superior Court had set on April 16 to listen to a lot of pleas that challenge the appointment of the CEC commissioners and elections under Law 2023.
Bhushan, who appeared for the NGO Association of the Petitioner’s NGO for democratic reforms, said that the Court had that the matter involved a brief legal question: where the Bank verdict of the Constitution of 2023 should be followed for the appeal of the perforation of CIN and ECS, CIN and ECS, CIN and ECS, CIN and ECS and ECS and ECS and ECS and ECS and ECS and ECS and ECS and ECS and ECS CIN and ECS and ECS. The president of the Supreme Court of India or the Law of 2023, which excludes the CJI of the Panel.
He had argued that the Government, by appointing the new CEC and the CE under the law of 2023, was making a “mockery of democracy.”
On February 17, the Government appointed EC Gyanesh Kumar as the next CEC.
Kumar is the first CEC that is designated under the new law and its mandate would take place until January 26, 2029, days before the EC is expected to announce the schedule of Lok Sabha’s next elections.
Vivek Joshi, an officer of Haryana-Cadre-Cadre IAS of 1989, was appointed electoral commissioner. Joshi (58) would serve in the voting panel until 2031.
According to the law, a CEC or an EC retires at 65 or could have a possession in the voting panel for six years.
On March 15, 2024, the Superior Court refused to maintain the appointments of the new ECS under the law of 2023 excluded the CJI from the selection panel and deferred the hearing in a lot of supplications against the appointments.
The Apex court told the petitioners that the verdict of March 2, 2023 directed the panel of three members that comprises the prime minister, leader of the opposition and the CJI to operate until the Parliament promulgated a law.
The verdict of the Apex court said that leaving the appointment of the CE and the CEC in the hands of the Executive would be detrimental to the health of the country’s democracy and the celebration of free and fair elections.
The NGO challenged the exclusion of the CJI and said that the Electoral Commission should be isolated from “political” and “executive interference” to maintain a healthy democracy.
The ADR plea alleged that the verdict was canceled by the center without eliminating its basic and the composition of the selection committee under the new law that was equivalent to excessive interference of the Executive in the appointments and was entitled to the independence of the voting panel.
It was recommended that former IAS Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Sandhu officers were appointed ECS in 2024 by a selection panel chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi under the new law.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED – PTI syndicated news agency)
