Kerala Assembly to Seek Removal of Chief Election Commissioner in Historic Resolution

The Congress-led Kerala government is set to move a resolution in the state Legislative Assembly on Monday calling for the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The resolution, to be moved by Chief Minister V D Satheesan, also demands reinstatement of eligible voters removed during the Special Intensive Revision process and reconstitution of the Election Commissioner selection panel. Kerala will become the first state assembly in India to pass such a resolution, with cross-party support expected from the UDF and LDF.

Two demands are bundled into the resolution headed for the Assembly floor: one seeking the removal of the CEC, the other calling for reinstatement of voting rights for eligible electors whose names were struck from the rolls, provided that the irregularities identified during the Special Intensive Revision process are addressed. Notably absent from the resolution — which put forward claims that the Special Intensive Revision process had stripped lakhs of voters from the rolls — was any reference to Kerala, a state where Assembly elections were held only after that revision process had run its course. The state Legislative Assembly, convened under the CPI(M) government that September, took up a resolution urging the Election Commission to drop its nationwide SIR rollout — and when the vote came, not one member present dissented. No other legislative chamber in India had, at that point, adopted a formal resolution of this kind directed at SIR — a distinction the Kerala Assembly acquired through the vote it cast.

Kerala Assembly to Seek Removal of Chief Election Commissioner in Historic Resolution

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