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Resignation of Election Commissioner
March 12 , 2024
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- Weeks before the Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commissioner Arun Goel has quit and his resignation has been accepted by the President.
- The three-member Election Commission of India already had a vacancy and will now be left only with Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar.
- In a landmark ruling in March last year, the Supreme Court had directed that Election Commissioners would be appointed by a panel consisting of
- The Prime Minister,
- The Leader of the Opposition and
- The Chief Justice of India.
- The bench also stated that the order would stay in force until a law was made by Parliament.
- In December, the Parliament passed a Bill to replace the Chief Justice of India in the panel with a Union Cabinet minister.
- The Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Bill, 2023, was passed by Parliament.
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