Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MP Galla Jayadev has suggested that the Central government should consider appointing a Supreme Court Judge as the Chief Election Commissioner to strengthen the institution of the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Referring to the debate on the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Bill, 2023 in Lok Sabha on December 21 (Thursday), Mr. Jayadev alleged that the government employees on election duties in Andhra Pradesh were not following the directives of the ECI in preparing error-free electoral rolls due to pressure from the ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leaders.
Mr. Jayadev, in a release, said that a TDP delegation met the Chief Election Commissioner and party’s national president N. Chandrababu Naidu wrote to the ECI about the “subjugation of democratic rights of people” through electoral malpractice and removing names of the TDP supporters and sympathisers from the electoral rolls in Andhra Pradesh.
