New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- Congress has criticised the 'hasty midnight move' to appoint Gyanesh Kumar as the new Central Election Commissioner (CEC), saying this move only confirmed the doubts that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was "destroying" the electoral process and bending rules for its benefits. Congress MP KC Venugopal stated that the CEC appointment should have been put on hold until the Supreme Court ruled on the matter in accordance with the Constitution.

The Congress MP took to social media to criticised the government move to appoint Gyanesh Kumar as the new CEC and said, "In a hasty midnight move, the Government has notified the appointment of the new Central Election Commissioner. This goes against the spirit of our Constitut...