{"id":3650,"date":"2023-03-03T04:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:29:23","slug":"how-are-the-cec-and-ecs-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/how-are-the-cec-and-ecs-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"How are the CEC and ECs appointed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Election Commission of India (ECI):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>autonomous and permanent constitutional body<\/strong> responsible <strong>for organizing free and fair elections in India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Constitution grants the ECI with the power of direction, superintendence, and control of <strong>elections to Parliament<\/strong>, <strong>state legislatures<\/strong>, the office of<strong> president of India,<\/strong> and the office of <strong>vice-president of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Powers and responsibilities ECI:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Determining the Electoral Constituencies\u2019 territorial areas<\/strong> throughout the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Preparing and periodically revising electoral rolls<\/strong> and <strong>registering all eligible voters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Notifying the schedules and dates of elections<\/strong> and <strong>scrutinizing nomination papers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Granting recognition to the various political parties<\/strong> and <strong>allocating them election symbols.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Commission also has <strong>advisory jurisdiction in the matter of post-election disqualification <\/strong>of sitting members of Parliament and State Legislatures.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>issues the Model Code of Conduct in elections<\/strong> for political parties and candidates so that no one indulges in unfair practice or there is no arbitrary abuse of powers by those in power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composition:<\/strong> The commission consists of a <strong>Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and two Election Commissioners (ECs).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How are <\/strong>the CEC and ECs<strong> currently appointed?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Under <strong>Article 324 (2)<\/strong>, the <strong>President appoints<\/strong> the <strong>CEC <\/strong>and other <strong>ECs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The President makes the appointment <strong>on the advice of the Union Council of Ministers <\/strong>headed by the Prime Minister.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Constitution does not prescribe any qualifications<\/strong>, academic or otherwise, for appointment to these offices.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>tenure of office and the conditions of service<\/strong> of all the commissioners is <strong>determined by the President.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The tenure<\/strong> of commissioners <strong>is<\/strong> <strong>6 years or up to the age of 65<\/strong>, whichever is earlier.<\/li>\n<li>The CEC and the two other ECs<strong> have the same powers and emoluments,<\/strong> including salaries, which are the same <strong>as a Supreme Court judge<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All three commissioners have the same right of taking a decision<\/strong>. <strong>In case of a difference of opinion<\/strong> amongst the three members, the matter is <strong>decided by the Commission by a majority.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Can CEC and ECs be removed?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Article 324<\/strong> of The Constitution of India <strong>mentions the provisions to safeguard and ensure the independent<\/strong> and impartial <strong>functioning of the Election Commission.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The CEC is provided with security of tenure.<\/strong> He<strong> cannot be removed from his office except in the same manner<\/strong> and on the same grounds <strong>as a judge of the Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Any other election commissioner<\/strong> or a regional commissioner <strong>cannot be removed from office except on the recommendation of the CEC.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>What does the recent Supreme Court ruling say?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>CEC and other ECs should be appointed by the President on the advice of a committee<\/strong> comprising the prime minister, the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, and the Chief Justice of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the mandate of Election Commission of India (ECI)?<\/h3>\n<p>The Election Commission of India is an autonomous constitutional authority responsible for administering Union and State election processes in India. The body administers elections to the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, State Legislative Assemblies in India, and the offices of the President and Vice President in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-law\/chief-election-commissioner-appointment-explained-supreme-court-ruling-8474745\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>How are the CEC and ECs appointed, and what has the Supreme Court order changed?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election Commission is a constitutional body responsible for organizing free and fair elections in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}