Poll panel never had partisan, unqualified EC pick: AG to SC

SELECTION UNDER SCANNER

- AmitAnand Choudhary

New Delhi: Facing volleys of questions from the Constitution bench of Justices K M Joseph, Ajay Rastogi, Aniruddha Bose, Hrishikesh Roy and CT Ravikumar on the need to have a “fair and transparent” mechanism for selection of members of the Election Commission and also on why no law has been framed to regulate their appointment as mandated under the Constitution, the trio of attorney general R Venkataramani, solicitor general Tushar Mehta and additional solicitor general Balbir Singh tried to convince the court that there was no need for the judiciary to interfere as the commission has always performed independently and done remarkable works that have been recognised internationally.