Chief election commissioner

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has directed the Centre, Uttar Pradesh government and the chief election commissioner (CEC) to file their counter-affidavit within four weeks on a PIL seeking complete ban on…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday orally observed that the need is for a Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) who can even take action against the Prime Minister and also asked the Centre to show the mechanism adopted in the…

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar, reacting to questions being raised on the autonomous status of the Election Commission, said that "actions speak louder than words".

Over a long period of time debate is going on the issue of conducting the elections at the same time across the country. In 1983, election commission expressed the idea of conducting the elections altogether. The Law…