The CEC, however, acted as if we don't exist," Gill famously said in 1995. Seshan approached the Supreme Court on October 26, 1993, challenging the ordinance and the appointments.

1995 verdict: CEC not above other ECsThe constitutional battle ended with a Supreme Court Constitution Bench judgment on July 14, 1995, which upheld the law providing for a multi-member Election Commission as well as the appointments of Gill and Krishnamurthy. The court rejected the proposition that the CEC's view would automatically prevail over those of the other Election Commissioners.

" If the CEC is considered to be a superior in the sense that his word is final, he would render the ECs non-functional or ornamental," the court observed. The judgment also commented on the personal friction that had accompanied the constitutional dispute.

" It is a pity they did not try to work as a team," the court said, adding that "suspicion and distrust got the better of them", while expressing the hope that the commissioners would work with mutual respect and confidence. 2019: Lavasa's dissent More than two decades later, another disagreement within the Election Commission became public during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

The commission then comprised CEC Sunil Arora and Election Commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra, with Lavasa disagreeing with the majority view in several complaints alleging Model Code violations by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then BJP president Amit Shah. The majority gave PM Modi and Shah clean chits in the complaints, while Lavasa wanted his dissenting views to be recorded and included in the commission's orders.

The disagreement subsequently became a dispute over whether a minority opinion should form part of the final order issued by the poll panel. Ashok Lavasa resigned before he was made CEC.

Lavasa eventually informed Arora that he would stay away from proceedings concerning MCC complaints. "' We are not clones': Sunil AroraThe dispute became public during the election campaign, prompting then CEC Sunil Arora to respond.

On May 18, 2019, Arora said the three members of the Commission were not expected to agree on every issue." The three members of ECI are not expected to be template or clones of each other," Arora said, describing the controversy as "unsavoury and avoidable".

He also noted that differences of opinion had existed within the Commission in the past. The full Commission subsequently discussed how dissent should be recorded.

Lavasa's demand that minority views be made part of the final MCC orders was not accepted. Instead, the commission decided that the views of all members would be recorded in its proceedings, while the final order would reflect the majority decision.

Lavasa resigns before he could become CECOn August 18, 2020, Lavasa resigned as Election Commissioner after being appointed vice-president of the Asian Development Bank. He had joined the Election Commission in January 2018 and still had more than two years left in his tenure.

He was also next in line to become Chief Election Commissioner. The Election Commission formally bid farewell to Lavasa later that month, with Arora saying the ECI's loss was the Asian Development Bank's gain.

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