Plea filed in Supreme Court challenging CJI's exclusion from panel selecting ECs

Filed by Congress' Jaya Thakur and others, the petition argues that the provisions of the law are violative of the principle of free and fair polls since it does not provide an "independent mechanism" for the appointment of election commissioners.

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