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Plea for independent panel to appoint EC members
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Govt. appointments to poll body violate Basic Structure of the Constitution, say petitioners
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Govt. appointments to poll body violate Basic Structure of the Constitution, say petitioners
A petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking the constitution of an independent collegium to appoint members of the Election Commission.
The plea filed by Association for Democratic Reforms, represented by advocates Prashant Bhushan and Cheryl Dsouza, said the practise of government making the appointments to the poll body is a violation of the Basic Structure of the Constitution and creates a dent on free and fair elections in a democracy.
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre and the governments of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to provide free rations to migrant workers stranded in the National Capital Region without insisting on identity proof, and arrange transport for those migrants who want to return home.
The bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and M.R. Shah said these governments must also open community kitchens and serve two free meals a day to the migrant workers and their families.
The directives came on an application from a group of social activists that sought to avert a rerun of the misery that migrant workers stranded by the first wave of Covid had to endure last year.
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