The new Chief Election Commissioner may be announced today | Gianesh Kumar becomes new Chief Election Commissioner: Rahul Gandhi objected to Prime Minister Modi -led meeting

At a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the name of Gianesh Kumar has been approved as the next Chief Election Commissioner. His tenure will be until January 26, 2029.

They will take charge after the current CEC retirement. Rajiv Kumar retires on February 18. At the same time, Vivek Joshi has been appointed as the Election Commissioner. He is the Chief Secretary of Haryana and the 1989 constituency IAS officer.

Home Minister Amit Shah and Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi were present at the meeting headed by Prime Minister Modi. A new CEC was appointed on the recommendation of this committee.

According to the media report, 5 names are listed for the new CEC. But Rahul refused to consider the names.

After the meeting, Rahul Gandhi made the disagreement. In this, the issue is pending in the Supreme Court, he said.

At the same time, the Congress said- we cannot work with arrogance. The Supreme Court had to postpone the meeting to make a decision soon.

Election Commissioner Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Gayanesh Kumar (left to right).

Singhvi said- the government must wait until the Supreme Court trial Congress leader and senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi said the CEC selection committee violated the verdict of the Supreme Court. The government has made it clear that the removal of the CJI from the ECE selection is not the credibility of the Election Commission, not the credibility of the Election Commission.

Singhvi said that the case to challenge the new law for appointing the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners is currently pending in the Supreme Court. In this case the test was on February 19. It is only 48 hours. The government wanted to contact the Supreme Court for the initial hearing of the petition.

In the petition to challenge the appointment of the Election Commission February 19 CEC and EC on February 19 The case was scheduled to be heard on February 12, but the case was not listed. Later, senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan raised the matter before the bench of Justice Suryakant and Justice Ann Kottiswar Singh.

Prashant said that CEC Rajiv Kumar is retiring on February 18. In such a situation, the government can appoint a new CEC, so the court must hear the matter soon. In this regard, the court dated February 19, and in the meantime, if something happened, it would be subject to the judgment of the court, so there is no point in worrying.

The issue is petitions to challenge the constitution of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioner in 2023.

How many commissioners can be in the EC? There are no definite Election Commissioners in the Constitution. Section 324 (2) of the Constitution states that the Election Commission may be the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners. Their number depends on the president. After independence, there was only the Chief Election Commissioner of the country in the Election Commission.

On October 16, 1989, the government of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi appointed two more Election Commissioners. This made the Election Commission a multi -member organization. These appointments were made before the 9th general election. At the time, it was said that this was done to cut the wings of Chief Election Commissioner RVS Perry Shastri.

On January 2, 1990, VP The Singh government revised the rules and re -created the Election Commission’s organization. On October 1, 1993, P.V. The Narasimha Rao government has once again approved the appointment of two Election Commissioners. Since then, the Election Commission has the Chief Election Commissioner and two Election Commissioners.