Impartiality of the Election Commission

👉The “informal interaction” of the CEC and two other Election Commissioners with the Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary has raised questions about the neutrality of the Commission, especially when elections to crucial States are around the corner.

👉The ECI is a constitutional authority whose responsibilities and powers are prescribed in the Constitution of India under Article 324.

👉In the performance of its functions, the Election Commission is insulated from executive interference.

👉It is the Commission that decides the election schedules for the conduct of elections, whether general elections or by-elections.

👉ECI decides on the location of polling stations, assignment of voters to the polling stations, location of counting centers, arrangements to be made in and around polling stations and counting centres and all allied matters.

👉The decisions of the Commission can be challenged in the High Court and the Supreme Court of India by appropriate petitions.

👉By long-standing convention and several judicial pronouncements, once the actual process of elections has started, the judiciary does not intervene in the actual conduct of the polls.


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