CEC Gyanesh Kumar Behind Most Orders, No Consensus With Other Commissioners: Report
New Delhi: An investigation by a news media has shock the entire India as it broke the news that most of the official orders and communication from the three-member Election Commission of India came from Chief Election Commissioner’s (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar Gupta.
In the past 10 months, all these orders had not even the consent of the majority of the Election Commissioners, and more importantly, the other commissions objected to the chief election commissioner’s actions at least 14 times.
Legally, a clear violation of Article 324 itself, which says clearly that all decisions will be taken unanimously as far as possible, and definitely with the majority in agreement, the report has created a political storm in the country.
Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi has announced a press conference at 4 pm today amid the ongoing political row over the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Announcing the meet, the Congress leader wrote on X that the enemies of the Constitution have been exposed, and justice will be served.
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All key objections were related to the core of the Election Commission’s mandate including new voter registration, deletion and restoration of voters in the rolls and filing of appeals against orders restoring voters in the SIR process. The report pointed out that in one such written objection, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu wrote an objection letter, complaining that the EC acted against the written advice of two Commissioners and claim its action was “unauthorised and illegal.”
Notably, both Sandhu and Vivek Joshi wrote to the Cabinet Secretary complaining about changes in work allocation stating that these changes were made without their knowledge.
