Navin Chawla to succeed Gopalswami as CEC

TheCentre has appointed Navin Chawla as chief election commissioner with effect from April 20, 2009Chawla iscurrently in Lucknow to review the poll arrangementsChawla will take over as the next......

CEC recommends removal of Navin Chawla

The battle in the Election Commission has assumed unprecedented proportions with Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami recommending to the government that other Election Commissioner Navin......

Navin Chawla: An authority by himself

If Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami lives by the rulebook, so does his colleague Navin Chawla. Only that the book is written by him and the rules are his own. A very recent incident, which......

Should A Collegium Pick Election Commissioners?

The system of 'selecting' an election commissioner, which is before the Supreme Court, must be institutionalised.Aditi Phadnis reports. IMAGE: Election Commissioner Arun Goel, whose appointment......