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Advani demands collegium for appointments to constitutional bodies by WWY YRJ
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Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani called on Sunday for reforming theselection process to fill the posts of Election Commissioners andthose in other constitutional bodies and demanded that abroad-based collegium handle all such appointments. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Mr. Advani said:"The present system, whereby members to the ElectionCommission are appointed by the President, solely on the advice ofthe Prime Minister, does not inspire confidence among the people.Keeping these important decisions as the exclusive preserve of theruling party renders the selection process vulnerable tomanipulation and partisanship." Mr. Advani's letter comes at a time when Chief ElectionCommissioner S.Y.
Qureshi is set to retire by this month-end, andthere will be a vacancy in another constitutional body — theComptroller and Auditor-General of India. Notably, even the second Administrative Reforms Commissionrecommended in 2009 that the CEC and other members of the ElectionCommission be appointed by a collegium. Mr. Advani urged Dr.
Singh to ensure that the new member to theElection Commission was appointed by a broad-based collegium,comprising the Prime Minister as its chairman and the Chief Justiceof India, the Minister of Law and Justice and the Leaders of theOpposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha as its members. "Indeed, the credibility of this system was severely dentedwhen a dubious appointment to the crucial office of the CEC wasmade a few years ago. The time has, therefore, come to reform theselection process for the EC and other constitutional bodies, ashas indeed been done in the case of the CVC [the Central VigilanceCommissioner] and CIC [the Chief Information Commissioner],"he said. Mr. Advani said: "There is a rapidly growing opinion in thecountry which holds that appointments to constitutional bodies suchthe Election Commission should be done on a bipartisan basis inorder to remove any impression of bias, or lack of transparency andfairness.
The people of India wish to see that only persons withcompetence, integrity and an impeccable record of service getappointed to these crucial bodies, whose functioning greatlydetermines the quality of governance." "Article 324 of the Constitution, which deals with theElection Commission of India, should be suitably amended. Thephrasing of Article 324 (2) shows that this would not need anyconstitutional amendment and can be done through an ordinaryenactment," he said. I am Apparel Fabric writer, reports some information about making roller blinds , wholesale pallet merchandise.
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