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Election commissioner's seat vacant for four months -Pheroze L Vincent

-The Telegraph Former CEC Sushil Chandra retired on May 14 this year, handing over charge to Rajiv Kumar The post of the third election commissioner has been vacant for the last four months. While this is not unprecedented, former heads of the poll panel said a delay makes the Election Commission of India vulnerable to a potential deadlock. Former chief election commissioner (CEC) Sushil Chandra retired on May 14 this year, handing over charge to Rajiv Kumar. The poll panel has been a two-member body since. Although no elections have taken place during this period, the commission has had to take key decisions on disqualification references against Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren and his brother Basant, also an MLA in the eastern state. T.S. Krishna Murthy, a former CEC, told The Telegraph: “It is not desirable to keep any public office vacant. The EC (Election Commission) is a three-member body and the majority view will prevail in its decision-making. If there are only two election commissioners, there can be a tie in which case decision-making will suffer. It is unfortunate that when I was appointed, the vacancy was filled up after a few months.” Krishna Murthy had joined the poll panel on January 30, 2000, filling the vacancy left by G.V.G. Krishnamurty on September 30, 1999. Krishna Murthy was CEC between 2004 and 2005. The commission became a three-member body from a single-member body in 1989, then reverted to a single-member body and again became a three-member body in quick succession in the early 1990s. T.N. Seshan, the then CEC, challenged the latest change in the Supreme Court, which in 1995 upheld the commission as a panel of three. Please click here to read more.