New Delhi, April 7 -- Rajya Sabha chairman CP Radhakrishnan and Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla rejected on Monday notices by opposition parties seeking the removal of chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar in both Houses, bringing to an end the first-ever attempt in Parliament to remove the CEC. Piloted by the TMC, two separate copies of the notice were submitted in Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha last month. The Opposition listed seven specific charges against Kumar, including "partisan and discriminatory conduct in office", "deliberate obstruction of investigation of electoral fraud" and "mass disenfranchisement through SIR". The Opposition criticised the decision to reject the notices. "Notice to remove CEC... by Rajya Sabha MPs rejec...