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Former bureaucrats Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar were on Thursday named as the new election commissioners by a panel chaired by PM Modi.
The selection panel is chaired by the prime minister and has as members one Union minister as nominated by the government and the leader of the largest opposition party in the Lok Sabha.
Addressing a press conference, Pawar said, “Earlier, one Supreme Court judge along with two Union ministers were part of the process to select election commissioners. However, some changes were made in the selection process recently and they removed the Supreme Court judge from the process.”
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