The Opposition and Treasury benches went head to head on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, as the Lok Sabha discussed electoral reforms for the second day on Wednesday (December 10, 2025).
In a no-holds-barred attack against the government, Congress MP K.C. Venugopal asked why the Chief Justice of India (CJI) had been removed from the process to select the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and the other Election Commissioners (ECs).
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Referring to a Supreme Court judgement by a bench headed by now-retired judge K.M. Joseph, which said the selection committee should include the Prime Minister, the CJI, and the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha until a law is framed, Mr. Venugopal said the top court’s intention was to ensure free and fair elections.
“You didn’t want the Chief Justice in that committee, that’s why you enacted a law to remove him,” he said. “The idea of an impartial electoral umpire has been replaced now, and it has now openly collapsed under political pressure and has become partisan. The right to vote is not a mercy from the government; it is a fundamental principle of democracy,” he added.
