A search committee led by Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal has been set up to shortlist candidates for the next chief election commissi...

That it finds the 'situation on the ground [to be] alarming' sounds rather extravagant, considering the court is hearing petitions recommen...

On 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...

The court was hearing a batch of pleas seeking a collegium-like system for the appointment of Election Commissioners (ECs) and Chief Electi...

The 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...

The AG said matters that were open for scrutiny by the court were the ones that violated fundamental rights. The court can enhance the prov...

Article 324 of the Constitution, which talks about the appointment of election commissioners, was flagged by the court in the matter. The c...

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...

The law ministry is learnt to have informed the EC that a political consensus is needed before the Constitution can be amended to protect e...

The appointment of the election commissioner was made as a vacancy would have arisen in the three-member poll panel after the retirement of...

The PIL has also sought direction to the Centre to provide an independent secretariat to the ECI and declare its expenditure as charged fro...

Jyoti is a 1975-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who retired as state Gujarat Chief Secretary in January 2013.

Achal Kumar Jyoti, a former Chief Secretary during the tenure of Modi as Gujarat CM, was appointed as the Election Commissioner, filling on...

In appointing Zaidi as the CEC, government has carried on with the convention of elevating the senior-most EC.

The Law Ministry has initiated the file to appoint the next CEC as present incumbent H S Brahma retires on April 19.

The government is yet to take a call on appointing an Election Commissioner to fill up the vacancy created by the elevation of Hari Shankar...

Mr Chawla had excused himself from joining the CEC in proposing that members of the EC should be debarred from joining a political party or...