{
  "id": 9356611,
  "title": "Who chooses India’s election commissioners — and why is the Supreme Court divided?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/who-chooses-indias-election-commissioners-and-why-is-the-supreme",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-23T13:44:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/who-chooses-indias-election-commissioners-and-why-is-the-supreme-court-divided-1.500685293"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Who should choose the officials entrusted with overseeing elections in the world’s largest democracy? That question is at the heart of an important constitutional battle before India’s Supreme Court, where two judges on Wednesday differed over whether challenges to a 2023 law governing the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and other Election Commissioners (ECs) needed to be…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}