Highlights

  • Experts raise concern against CEC and other EC Bill, 2023
  • Bill will downgrade Election Commissioners' status: panel
  • Former CEC panel to flag concerns with PM in a letter: Indian Express report

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Former officials at the Election Commission have raised concern about the contentious CEC Bill which is scheduled for passing in the Parliament next week 

Parliament Special Session: former CECs express concern about bill, to write to PM says report

In what would be an unprecedented intervention, a group of former Chief Election Commissioners are actively considering writing to PM Narendra Modi regarding their concerns about the proposed CEC Bill scheduled for passage in Parliament next week.

The Bill aims to downgrade the service conditions of the CEC and Election Commissioners, aligning their salaries and service conditions with those of a Cabinet Secretary, as opposed to the current equivalence to a Supreme Court Judge.

The communication is reportedly in its final stages and is signed by at least three former CECs, as per an Indian Express report.

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