NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused the Congress of appointing folks near the occasion as election commissioners and claimed that his authorities had made enhancements within the Election Fee.”Earlier, the Prime Minister used to sign a file and form the Election Commission. And those who were close to their families became election commissioners.We have made improvements in the Election Commission. Today, if the Election Commission is formed, then the opposition is also in it,” PM Modi mentioned in an interview with information company ANI.Taking a jibe on the opposition, he mentioned, “So our level play cannot happen, we cannot become like that. We want to go on the right path, we don’t want to go on the wrong path.”The opposition has accused the Election Fee of “favouring” the BJP. In March 2023, a five-judge Structure Bench of the courtroom had dominated that the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and Election Commissioners (ECs) shall be appointed on the recommendation of a committee comprising the Prime Minister, chief of opposition in Lok Sabha, and the Chief Justice of India. Nonetheless, final December, Parliament handed the Chief Election Commissioner and Different Election Commissioners (Appointment, Situations of Service and Time period of Workplace) Invoice, 2023 dropping the CJI from the panel. Underneath the brand new system, a three-member committee, comprising the Prime Minister, a Union minister and the chief of the opposition selects the three Election Commissioners.The Centre defended the dropping of CJI from the panel and mentioned the independence of the Election Fee doesn’t come up from the presence of a judicial member on the committee.
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