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The GoI was prodded after 73 years to table a Bill when the March 2023 SC judgment constituted a three-member bipartisan selection committee comprising the PM, CJI and LOP to appoint the CEC and ECs. But the Bill s selection panel comprising the PM, LOP and a Union minister allows the Executive to retain control over the selection process