Tag: Election Commission

Today’s Hindu carries the CEC’s response to the Hindu’s coverage of the controversy over his recommendation to remove EC, Navin Chawla, and the Hindu’s editor-in-chief N.Ram’s reply to him point-wise. The exchange brings to the …

By Guest Blogger: Manoj Mitta In the controversy over whether the Chief Election Commissioner was empowered to make a suo motu recommendation against an Election Commissioner, one interesting background detail that has gone unnoticed is …

The recommendation of the CEC to the President has created a constitutional crisis. The Law Minister’s statement that the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) cannot suo motu recommend the removal of the Election Commissioner (EC) is …

In the update to my previous post, I cast doubts on the correctness of the Supreme Court’s August 7, 2007 order, in view of a vague sentence appearing immediately after the Bench sums up Ram …

The controversy over the CEC’s recommendation to remove the Election Commissioner, Navin Chawla is raging, even though the documents, crucial to determine the correctness of the recommendation, are still out of the public domain. The …

N.Ram’s scoop in The Hindu today has stirred up an interesting controversy,(and perhaps agonising as well, in view of its timing) and is likely to dominate public discourse in the coming days. The purpose of …