Election-roll revision and the constitutional question over CEC appointments
Quick dive
- West Bengal’s SIR draft process placed over 58 lakh names in the absent, shifted, dead or duplicate category, while appellate tribunals had cleared only 1.26 lakh of 38.31 lakh appeals.
- The ECI directed a fresh enrolment drive using camps, door-to-door visits and Form 6 for eligible voters left out of the rolls.
- The Supreme Court agreed to examine a plea challenging the 2023 law on appointing Election Commissioners, which replaced the Chief Justice of India with a Union Minister nominated by the Prime Minister in the selection panel.
- The article refers to the 2023 law’s tension with the Anoop Baranwal judgment, where the CJI had been included as a neutral member pending parliamentary legislation.
- exam_relevance: combines exact SIR and tribunal numbers with the Anoop Baranwal–2023 law selection-panel change, echoing UPSC questions on ECI powers, electoral rolls, constitutional bodies and judicial review; Form 6 and due process make the current article concretely testable.
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