Question

3. With reference to terms of office and conditions of service of the Election Commission, answer
the following questions:
(a) Who constitutes the Election Commission? Who is the head of the Election Commission?
(b) What is the term of the Election Commissioners? What happens in case there is a
difference in opinion between the Election Commissioners?
(C) State any four functions of the Election Commission.​

Answer 1

Sunil Arora is the current 23rd Chief Election Commissioner and the two Election Commissioners are Rajiv Kumar and Sushil Chandra.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) is an autonomous and permanent constitutional body responsible for organising free and fair elections in the Union and States of India. The Constitution grants the ECI with the power of direction, superintendence, and control of elections to Parliament, state legislatures, the office of president of India and the office of vice-president of India. The ECI does not deal with the elections to the urban bodies such as Municipalities and Panchayats in the states and hence, a separate State Election Commission.

The Election Commission prepares, maintains and periodically updates the Electoral Rolls, which show who is entitled to vote, supervises the nomination of candidates, registers political parties, monitors the election campaign, including the funding and exponential by candidates