New Delhi: Amid demands for removal of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday clarified that if the opposition brings a fresh impeachment motion versus him, it will be considered under parliamentary rules and prescribed procedure. He said that without the proposal comes in Parliament, whoopee will be taken as per rules.
This statement of Om Birla has come at a time when opposition parties are raising questions on the Election Commission regarding the Special Intensive Revision or SIR of voter lists. The opposition alleges that there have been irregularities in this process. Regarding this issue, opposition leaders have intensified their demand for whoopee versus Gyanesh Kumar and his removal from the post.
What did Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla say?
When journalists asked Om Birla whether the opposition could bring flipside impeachment motion versus the Chief Election Commissioner, he said that if a new notice comes, it will be looked into as per the rules and procedures.
Birla moreover clarified that there is a prescribed procedure for removing the Chief Election Commissioner from the post and it will be followed. At present his statement ways that a visualization on any new proposal will be taken only when it formally comes surpassing the Parliament.
Attempts to remove it have once been made twice?
The opposition has once tried twice to remove Gyanesh Kumar from the post. For the first time, notices given in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were not accepted. The opposition then gave flipside notice in the Rajya Sabha with new grounds, which is pending in the Upper House as per misogynist reports.
The opposition says that serious questions have been raised on the functioning of the Election Commission and the decisions related to SIR. However, visa of a proposal and its going forward depends on parliamentary rules and prescribed conditions.
Why did the controversy increase regarding SIR?
There has been a dispute between the opposition and the Election Commission for some time regarding the special intensive revision of voter lists. Opposition parties have so-called irregularities in the process and demanded peccancy of the Chief Election Commissioner.
The controversy escalated remoter when a report in The Indian Express personal that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had filed objections on SIR-related decisions and orders at least 14 times in the last 10 months. According to the report, these objections raised questions well-nigh some decisions stuff issued without their knowledge or recommendation.
However, the Election Commission has rejected claims of differences or disagreement over its decisions, saying that the decisions related to SIR were taken with the consent of the three commissioners. In such a situation, it is important to alimony in mind both the allegations of the opposition and the position of the Election Commission in this dispute.
What will happen next now?
If the opposition formally presents a new proposal, its visa and remoter whoopee will be decided in vibrations with prescribed parliamentary procedure. The process of removal of the Chief Election Commissioner is washed-up under ramble provisions and for this special condition has to be fulfilled.
At present, Om Birla has said that instead of giving whop visualization on any new proposal, whoopee will be taken as per the rules. Now everyone's vision will be on when and on what grounds the opposition presents a new notice and what procedure is followed in the Parliament.
