Rajya Sabha chairman CP Radhakrishnan and Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla rejected on Monday notices by opposition parties seeking the removal of chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar in both Houses, bringing to an end the first-ever attempt in Parliament to remove the CEC.
The opposition parties listed seven specific charges against Kumar, including "partisan and discriminatory conduct in office", "deliberate obstruction of investigation of electoral fraud" and "mass disenfranchisement through SIR".
The Rajya Sabha secretariat said in a communique that the chairman refused to admit the notice of motion after a "careful and objective assessment of all relevant aspects and issues involved". A Lok Sabha bulletin also stated that the speaker refused to admit the notice of motion after due consideration.
The opposition parties had submitted two separate copies of the notice in Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, piloted by the Trinamool Congress. They had been at loggerheads with Kumar over the special intensive revision of electoral rolls.
