Collegium For Appointments to the Constitutional Bodies

The Government has said that it doesn’t propose to set up any Collegium for the appointment of Election Commissioners, Comptroller and Auditor General and to the Constitutional bodies in the country. However, the Government has been receiving suggestions/ opinions from the public from time to time and also from the Election Commission of India regarding appointment of Election Commissioners and Chief Election Commissioner. Giving this information in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today, Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister of Law & Justice, said that recently, Shri L.K. Advani, Chairman of Bhartiya Janta Party Parliamentary Party and Shri Gurudas Das Gupta, Member of Parliament, have also suggested constitution of a Collegium/ Committee comprising Prime Minister, Chief Justice of India, Leader of Opposition, Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha for the selection of Election Commissioner in the Election Commission of India and Comptroller and Auditor General.

Shri Khurshid informed the House that the existing system of the appointment of Election Commissioners and Comptroller and Auditor General has been working successfully and there has been no cause of concern regarding their impartiality and professionalism, irrespective of the Government under which they get appointed.