Joining the debate on the chief election commissioner's controversial recommendation L K Advani said the government should accept CEC's proposal without any delay.
Joining the debate on the chief election commissioner's controversial recommendation to the President for removal of one of his colleagues, leader of the opposition L K Advani on Sunday said the government should accept CEC's proposal without any delay.
"The chief election commissioner's recommendation with regard to Navin Chawla be forthwith accepted by government," Advani wrote in his blog today.
On behalf of the BJP, party General Secretary, Arun Jaitley has rightly argued that the word 'recommendation' used in the second provision of Article 324(3) must be construed as a binding recommendation, Advani said.
"Jaitley has drawn attention to Article 217 of the Constitution relating to appointment of High Court Judges where the appointment is to be 'after consultation with the chief justice', the chief justice's views has always been regarded binding," he wrote.
In the context of the current controversy about Navin Chawla, it would be educative to compare Article 124 dealing with the Supreme Court, with Article 324 laying down provisions relating to the Election Commission, he added.
In his write-up, he also recalled his conversation with former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto in which she termed "the apolitical Indian Army and the Constitutionally independent Election Commission" to be the two most important reasons for India's success as a democracy.
The battle in the Election Commission assumed unprecedented proportions with the chief election commissioner N Gopalaswami recommending to the government for removal of the other election commissioner Navin Chawla.
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