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With Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar acceptable to demit bureau connected February 18, the Union Law Ministry precocious acceptable up a Search Committee headed by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal to shortlist names for his replacement, sources said.
The Search Committee would shortlist names to beryllium considered by the Selection Committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Cabinet Minister and Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
The process of appointing the CEC from a sheet of 5 arsenic per the Chief Election Commissioner And Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service And Term of Office) Act, 2023, would beryllium a first.
The Indian Express had reported connected January 11 that the enactment process for the CEC would impact a sheet of 5 names arsenic per the Act. While the process was adopted for the assignment of Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu successful March 2024, the caller assignment process for appointing the CEC volition beryllium utilized for the archetypal time. Prior to the enactment of the law, the CEC was usually appointed by elevating the senior-most EC.
It is learnt that the Law Ministry has acceptable up the hunt committee of the Minister and 2 Secretaries (of Finance and Department of Personnel and Training) connected January 17, arsenic per provisions of the Act. The Search Committee would soon shortlist 5 secretary-level officers for the Selection Committee to prime from, arsenic per a source. The Act gives the Selection Committee the enactment of selecting a sanction from extracurricular this sheet of 5 arsenic well. Sources accidental that Gyanesh Kumar, who is the senior-most EC aft Rajiv Kumar, could inactive go CEC, but the process arsenic prescribed successful the Act would person to beryllium followed.
-With PTI inputs
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