Built on the Johns Hopkins University Campus. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless. Institutional Login. LOG IN. Journal of Democracy. It was late in the afternoon in Kampala on 31 March They have, though somewhat grudgingly, accepted the decisions of the EC.
Rather than taking an offensive stance vis-a-vis the EC, they have tried to explain their actions and even rectify the problems. Further, Panchu argues that such an action must be taken free from political and legal wrangling. It stands to reason that if it satisfies these criteria, it should be accepted and implemented.
Navin Chawla should never have been appointed as EC in the first place. Manjari Katju writes that the appointment of the CEC and other Election Commissioners ECRs are effectively political appointments of the government in power, carried out by the President. To ensure impartiality in the appointment procedure, Katju references a suggestion by former CEC B B Tandon, who argued in favour of a search committee which would include the Lok Sabha speaker, the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha and the leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha, the law minister, the deputy chairperson of the Rajya Sabha and a judge of the Supreme Court nominated by the chief justice of India.
In fact, there seems to be an urgent need for reforms looking at the present context of a highly contested political domain. In this altered political scenario, it has to be ensured that all possibilities that might make the EC a contested institution are curbed. And as suggested earlier, by the Goswami Committee among others, the members of the EC should be barred from political and diplomatic appointments.
Further, Katju asserts that the process of reform can be carried out without too much difficulty, largely due to the absence of political friction—reform should be a bipartisan approach as it does not seek to restructure the Indian political system or alter sociopolitical structures in the country. The working of checks and balances ensures that if there is a possibility of the EC functionaries to lean towards one political party, the other political parties can check the deviance by bringing it to the notice of the concerned authorities … the reform in the appointment of the Election Commission is not something that challenges the foundations of our political system.
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