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The question is:

That in amendment No. 99 of List I in the proposed article 289-  

(i) in clause (1) the words ‘to be appointed by the President’ occurring at the end be deleted.  

(ii) for the clause (2), the following clauses be substituted:- 

‘(2) TheElection Commission shall consist to the Chief Election Commissioner and such number of other Election Commissioners, if any, as the President may from time to time fix and the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners shall, subject to the provisions of any law made in this behalf by Parliament, be made by the President .’ 

‘(2a) When any other Election Commissioner is so appointed the Chief Election Commissioner shall act as the Chairman of the Commission.’ 

(iii) in clause (4), before the words ‘The conditions of service’ the words ‘subject to the provisions of any law made by Parliament’ be inserted.”

The amendment was adopted.

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