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Kerala Assembly to Seek Chief Election Commissioner’s Removal
Kerala’s Assembly is expected to discuss a resolution on Monday.
The resolution asks India’s Union government to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Chief Minister V D Satheesan is set to present it.
The article says this would be the first such resolution by a state Assembly in India.
The Assembly’s new session also begins on Monday.
Last September, the Assembly passed a different resolution opposing the rollout of the SIR.
That earlier resolution was introduced under the then Left Democratic Front government.
Kerala’s Congress government plans to present a resolution urging the Union government to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
Chief Minister V D Satheesan is scheduled to move the resolution.
If passed, it would make the Kerala Assembly the first in India to seek the CEC’s removal through a resolution.
The resolution is scheduled for Monday, when the second session of the 16th Kerala Legislative Assembly begins.
In September last year, the Assembly passed a resolution opposing the rollout of the SIR under the then Left Democratic Front government.
- Who
- Kerala’s Congress government; Chief Minister V D Satheesan is scheduled to move the resolution.
- What
- The Assembly is set to consider a resolution urging the Union government to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.
- Where
- Kerala Legislative Assembly, India.
- When
- Monday, the opening day of the second session of the 16th Legislative Assembly.
- Why
- The resolution seeks the Union government’s removal of Gyanesh Kumar as Chief Election Commissioner; the article does not state the grounds.
Key facts
- Proposed action
- A state Assembly resolution urging the Union government to remove the CEC
- CEC named
- Gyanesh Kumar
- Mover
- Chief Minister V D Satheesan
- Scheduled timing
- Monday, as the second session of the 16th Legislative Assembly begins
- Claimed first
- Kerala would be the first Assembly in India to bring a resolution seeking the CEC’s removal
- Earlier Assembly resolution
- In September last year, the Assembly passed a resolution against rolling out the SIR
Sources
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