Searched for
CEC TENURE
Congress leader has 'no trust' in LAHDC's head councillorCouncillors in Kargil have filed a no-confidence motion against the Chief Executive Councillor. This move follows a disagreement over a rot...- Mamata Banerjee refuses to resign, calls Bengal verdict ‘conspiracy’; BJP hits backWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stated she will not resign following the election results. She alleged a conspiracy and blamed t...
- Gyanesh Kumar appointed as India's Chief Election CommissionerPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s committee appointed Gyanesh Kumar as the next Chief Election Commissioner, succeeding Rajiv Kumar upon his r...
- Search committee set up to shortlist names for next CEC: SourcesA search committee led by Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal has been set up to shortlist candidates for the next chief election commissi...
- How to make it easier for Election Commission transparencyThat it finds the 'situation on the ground [to be] alarming' sounds rather extravagant, considering the court is hearing petitions recommen...
- Former law minister Moily, ex CEC Quraishi support SC observation on appointment of CEC, ECOn Tuesday, a constitution bench of the Supreme Court had questioned the absence of a law to appoint the CEC and ECs. The top court had ter...
- Inclusion of CJI in consultative process for CEC appointment will ensure independence: SCThe court was hearing a batch of pleas seeking a collegium-like system for the appointment of Election Commissioners (ECs) and Chief Electi...
- Chief Election Commissioner's tenure: In light of SC criticism, things to know about Article 324The first two CECs were in office for eight years, but the CECs appointed since 2007 served just two years or even less, the apex court sai...
- SC frowns on 'truncated CEC tenures', wonders if CJI can be on selection panelThe AG said matters that were open for scrutiny by the court were the ones that violated fundamental rights. The court can enhance the prov...
- Supreme Court calls exploitation of 'silence of Constitution' on appointments of ECs, CECs 'disturbing trend'Article 324 of the Constitution, which talks about the appointment of election commissioners, was flagged by the court in the matter. The c...
- Prospective CEC Ashok Lavasa soon to join as vice president of Asian Development Bank, a year after ‘dissent’Chief Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa will become the first EC to forego a chance to become the next CEC Sushil Chandra likely to take o...
- Law min unlikely to extend constitutional protection to ECsThe law ministry is learnt to have informed the EC that a political consensus is needed before the Constitution can be amended to protect e...
- Om Prakash Rawat appointed new CEC, Ashok Lawasa made ECThe appointment of the election commissioner was made as a vacancy would have arisen in the three-member poll panel after the retirement of...
- Plea in SC to protect Election Commissioners from removalThe PIL has also sought direction to the Centre to provide an independent secretariat to the ECI and declare its expenditure as charged fro...
- Achal K Jyoti takes over as new Election CommissionerJyoti is a 1975-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who retired as state Gujarat Chief Secretary in January 2013.
- Former Gujarat Chief Secretary Achal Kumar Jyoti appointed as Election CommissionerAchal Kumar Jyoti, a former Chief Secretary during the tenure of Modi as Gujarat CM, was appointed as the Election Commissioner, filling on...
- Senior IAS officer Nasim Zaidi appointed as Chief Election CommissionerIn appointing Zaidi as the CEC, government has carried on with the convention of elevating the senior-most EC.
- Nasim Zaidi set to be next Chief Election CommissionerThe Law Ministry has initiated the file to appoint the next CEC as present incumbent H S Brahma retires on April 19.
- Government yet to take a call on appointing Election CommissionerThe government is yet to take a call on appointing an Election Commissioner to fill up the vacancy created by the elevation of Hari Shankar...
- Chawla was evasive on CEC suggestion to bar ex-ECs from joining politicsMr Chawla had excused himself from joining the CEC in proposing that members of the EC should be debarred from joining a political party or...
Load More
