CEC, ECs interacted with PM's Office after Law Ministry note: Report

Meeting allegedly raises questions of propriety and was held despite creating a flutter in the commission about the ministry's note.

The three top officials of the Election Commission joined an online “informal interaction” called by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on November 16 despite expressing reservations, the Indian Express reported on Friday, raising questions of propriety about the executive branch’s relationship with a constitutional body.

Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and the two Election Commissioners, Rajiv Kumar and Anup Chandra Pandey joined the meeting a day after the Commission received an letter from an official of the Law Ministry saying P K Mishra, the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, will “chair a meeting” on a common electoral roll and