Bengaluru, Sept. 23 -- Expressing concern over questions raised about the functioning of the Election Commission under Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's leadership, former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday urged President Droupadi Murmu to immediately remove Kumar and initiate an inquiry into the poll body's functioning.

This comes after a report by the Indian Express that said that decisions taken on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process were objected to by two of the three Election Commissioners.

According to the report, "Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi objected at least 14 times over the last 10 months to decisions taken and orders issued without their knowledge."

In a statement, ...