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โ€œEnsure Your Name Is On Voter List To Avoid Undergoing Detentionโ€: Mamata Banerjeeโ€™s Appeal To People

Mamata Banerjee

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged citizens of the state to ensure that their name is on the voter list if they are eligible to vote.

Banerjee attended an event on land distribution organized by the state government in Kolkata. At the event she said, said, โ€œPoor people canโ€™t be evicted. I heard that on the pretext of constructing a flyover, railways have evicted people without any compensation. I will not allow anyone to evict refugees in West Bengal.โ€

At the event, she said to people that if their land is being taken away from them forcibly, then they should protest and the state government will support them too.

โ€œEnsure your name is there on the voter list, or else, you will be sent to detention camps in the name of NRC. Itโ€™s a shame, shame and shame,โ€ Banerjee said.

Mamata Banerjee accused the Bharatiya Janata Party at the centre for not releasing funds for 100-day of work.

Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party for not providing fertiliser to farmers she said, โ€œFarmers are not getting fertiliser from the Centre. We have even sent a letter to them. We will have to think about manufacturing fertiliser on our own in the future if non-cooperation continues.โ€

At the event, Banerjee handed over 4,701 lands โ€˜pattasโ€™ to marginalized families from all districts.

Also Read: โ€œBig Khela In West Bengal, TMC Govt May Not Surviveโ€: BJP MLA

Stating that there will be a โ€˜big khelaโ€™ in West Bengal, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Agnimitra Paul on Tuesday claimed that the Trinamool Congress-led state government would not survive after December this year.

The leader further claimed that over 30 MLAs of the ruling TMC are in touch with the BJP and that the Mamata Banerjee-led governmentโ€™s โ€œexistence is at stakeโ€. โ€œThere will be a โ€˜khelaโ€™ here in December. More than 30 TMC MLAs are in contact with our party. They know that their Govt will not continue for long after December. Their existence is at stake,โ€ Paul told ANI.

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New CEC To Be โ€˜Outsiderโ€™?

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Delhi Assembly Elections will be the  Current Chief Election Commissioner  Rajiv Kumarโ€™s last election as an Election Commissioner. Kumar is slated to retire on February 18.

The President will appoint the new CEC upon the recommendation of the The section committee. The appointment of the new Election Commissioner will be as per the Chief Election Commissioner And Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service And Term of Office) Act, 2023.

Until now, the successor to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) has been the next senior most Election Commissioner. In this case, Gyanesh Kumar.  According to an Indian Express report, As per the act, Kumar can still be in the race for the top post of the poll body. 

However, according to Sections 6 and 7 of the Act, the Ministry of Law will form a Search Committee chaired by the Law Minister to prepare a panel of five names for the Selection Committee. The act also made changes in the selection committee. Earlier, the selection committee consisted of the Prime Minister, CJI and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.

After the act, The Selection Committee will now consist of the Prime Minister, a Cabinet minister and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, who can select from this panel or consider โ€œany other personโ€ from outside, which means other than the two serving Election Commissioners. The act states that the candidates for the top post would be current or former Secretary-level officers.

Let me give you a brief history of what had happened before the act came into force. 

The Supreme Court in March 2023 ruled that a three-member panel, headed by the Prime Minister and comprising the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha and the Chief Justice of India, will select the CEC and ECs till a law is framed by Parliament on the appointment of these commissioners.

The bench delivered its verdict on a batch of pleas seeking a collegium-like system for the appointment of election commissioners and the Chief Election Commissioner. The bench, while delivering its judgement, had said: โ€œPurity of the election process must be maintained to preserve democracy; otherwise, it would lead to disastrous consequences,โ€ the top court said.

The top court held that elections should undoubtedly be fair, and the buck stops with the ECI to ensure that purity of poll process is maintained.

The founding fathers of the Constitution left it for Parliament to frame law for the appointment of Chief Election Commissioner and ECs, but political dispensations betrayed the trust, and the law has not been framed in the last seven decades, the court said. 

Cut to December 2023, The Modi government introduced The CEC and Other Election Commissioners Bill, 2023 in the Parliament and got it passed in both houses. 

The appointment of Election commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu has happened as per the new provision.

Notably, on Wednesday, the SC said it would hear petitions challenging the Act, particularly the exclusion of the CJI on February 4.

 

 

 

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