New Delhi: As Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar is set to retire on Tuesday (February 18), the selection committee convened on Monday to choose his successor.

The meeting included Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and a Union Minister. Rahul Gandhi attended the meeting. However, he said the meeting should not have been held since the matter is pending in the Supreme Court. “There is nothing like having an ego in this. It is a matter of democracy and the republic,” Rahul pointed out as per sources.

Earlier, the Congress had proposed that the government postpone the meeting. It had raised objections to the selection of a Chief Election Commissioner while the law governing the appointment to the post is being contested in the Supreme Court.

Congress leader Ajay Maken reportedly said that a meeting related to the election of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) was held........

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