CEC writes to PM against Khurshid (Lead)
January 13th, 2012 - 9:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Apparently upset with Law Minister Salman Khurshid for saying that his ministry had administrative control over the constitutional body, Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi has complained to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said sources.
Sources said that Quraishi is upset over his authority being undermined by the minister’s statement.
However, Quraishi dismissed the suggestion that there was anything personal between him and Khurshid. “It is a very ridiculous idea. We are friends otherwise, personally. It is just an institutional issue,” Quraishi told a news channel.
Khurshid recently said to a TV news channel that the law ministry has control over the Election Commission as it signs documents related to travel of the Election Commissioners.
The EC had Tuesday served show cause notice on the minister for promising while campaigning for his wife Louise in Farrukhabad on Sunday that nine percent sub-quota would be allocated for minorities in Uttar Pradesh if the Congress was voted to power.
The EC also stayed implementation of 4.5 per cent quota for minorities in the five poll-bound states.
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