Pinarayi calls for removal of Gyanesh Kumar from CEC post

Leader of the Opposition in the Keralam Assembly Pinarayi Vijayan has demanded the immediate removal of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, pointing out that the credibility of the Election Commission of India (EC) had been completely undermined and that its functioning had become an exercise in autocracy because of the manner in which the CEC was conducting the affairs of the EC.

In a Facebook post on Friday, Mr. Vijayan said that the country’s constitutional institutions were facing an unprecedented threat and that the recent reports about the conduct of CEC were “shocking”.