New Delhi: From “partisan asymmetry” in enforcing the Model Code of Conduct to “public denunciation of a recognised political party on the official social media handle of the Election Commission of India” to “disenfranchisement” of voters and the faulty Special Intensive Revision (SIR) framework being duplicated – a total of 73 members of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha have submitted a fresh notice seeking the removal of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar alleging proven misbehaviour.The Wire has learnt that the notice submitted to the Rajya Sabha secretary general on Friday (April 24) includes nine charges.“73 Opposition MPs in the Rajya Sabha have just submitted to its Secretary General a fresh Notice of Motion for presenting an Address to the President of India praying for the removal of Shri Gyanesh Kumar, Chief Election Commissioner of India, on the ground of proven misbehaviour constituted by acts and omissions committed on and after 15 March 2026, within the meaning of Article 324 (5) of the Constitution of India read with Article 124(4) thereof, Section 11(2) of the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023 and the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968,” Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said.The Wire has learnt that the first charge against Kumar is “partisan asymmetry” in the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct and mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on April 18. While opposition parties had, following the address, alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct, the poll body sent a notice to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge but has not yet taken any action against Modi.The second charge refers to “partisan and public denunciation of a recognised political party on the official social media handle of the Election Commission of India, referring to the poll body’s “straight talk” to the Trinamool Congress earlier this month.The Election Commission had in its post written on X: “ECI’s Straight-talk to Trinamool Congress… This time, the Elections in West Bengal would surely be: fear-free, violence-free, intimidation-free, inducement-free and without any raid, booth jamming and source jamming.”The third charge refers to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) seal on an Election Commission document on poll guidelines in Kerala, and alleges “administrative lapses evidencing institutional proximity to the ruling party — the Kerala seal incident”.The fourth charge refers to the Election Commission’s behaviour with a TMC delegation on April 8 and cites the CEC’s “conduct (being) unbecoming of a constitutional functionary”. The TMC had alleged after the meeting that CEC Kumar had asked them to “get out.”The fifth charge refers to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in West Bengal and alleges “mass disenfranchisement”, pointing out the “deletion of approximately 91 lakh voters and judicial exclusion of approximately 34 lakh voters from the franchise”.The sixth charge alleges “wilful non-action upon specific and documented complaints of official partisanship” referring to “non action” on complaints by the TMC against the appointment of Surajit Roy as the returning officer in Bhabanipur constituency from where chief minister Mamata Banerjee is contesting against her chief challenger Suvendu Adhikari. Roy, the TMC has alleged in its complaint to the Election Commission last month, is close to Adhikari.The seventh charge in the opposition notice against Kumar refers to the nationwide SIR, calling it “defective” while the eighth charge refers to repeated “causation of adverse judicial observations” and the Supreme Court’s interventions invoking Article 142.The ninth and final charge refers to “illegally” abusing power to direct transfers of bureaucrats in Tamil Nadu.The fresh notice comes just weeks after two separate notices moved in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on March 12 that accused Kumar of “misbehaviour” were rejected on April 6. The unprecedented move included a notice in the Rajya Sabha signed by 63 MPs while the one in the Lok Sabha was signed by 130 MPs.The CEC, according to the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023, “shall not be removed from his office except in like manner and on the like grounds as a Judge of the Supreme Court.”According to the Judges Inquiry Act, 1968, a Supreme Court judge can be removed if an impeachment notice is given in either House of parliament. If the notice is given in the Lok Sabha, it needs to be signed by at least 100 members, and if in the Rajya Sabha it needs to be signed by at least 50 MPs. The Speaker or Chairman can then decide whether to admit the motion or refuse to admit it.