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Section 7: PM, a PM-nominated Cabinet Minister and LoP select CEC and ECs
The President appoints the CEC and ECs on the recommendation of a selection committee: the Prime Minister (chair), the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha (or leader of the largest opposition party), and a Union Cabinet Minister nominated by the Prime Minister. An appointment is not invalid because of a vacancy or defect in the committee. This replaced the Chief Justice of India, whom the Supreme Court had placed on the interim committee.
CHARGE AND ANSWER
Responses: No response on record.
What the record shows: Section 7: PM, a PM-nominated Cabinet Minister and LoP select CEC and ECs, Sections 5, 6, 8: Law Minister's search panel; committee may look beyond it, Sections 9-11: six-year term, SC-judge pay, CEC removable only like a judge
PRS analysed the bill as introduced. In the Act as passed, pay was changed from the Cabinet Secretary's to a Supreme Court judge's (Section 10); the panel (Section 7) and the Secretary-rank eligibility rule (Section 5) were not changed.