Overview
- The opposition is drafting a fresh removal notice against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, with at least five senior MPs from Congress, Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party and DMK involved, according to sources.
- Leaders plan to rally roughly 200 MP signatures to underscore wider support after the government’s Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill on delimitation and women’s quota failed in the Lok Sabha.
- Parties have not decided whether to file the new notice in the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha, or both, and discussions remain at an early stage.
- Presiding officers previously rejected similar notices, with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman C. P. Radhakrishnan ruling the claims did not meet the Constitution’s test of proved misbehaviour and were often matters for judicial review.
- The allegations cite a compromised appointment, partisan conduct including a so‑called graded response to opposition figures, obstruction of electoral‑fraud probes, refusals to share electoral data, and disputed voter‑roll revisions known as Special Intensive Revision.