Sushil Chandra was appointed the new Chief Election Commissioner on Monday as the tenure of Sunil Arora, the former head of the electoral ...
Sushil Chandra was appointed the new Chief Election Commissioner on Monday as the tenure of Sunil Arora, the former head of the electoral body, ended. Chandra will formally take charge on Tuesday.
Chandra will take over as the chief of the Election Commission of India during elections in four states and one Union Territory. The electorate in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry voted in a single phase on April 6. Polls in Assam and West Bengal are being held in multiple phases between March 27 and April 29. These results will be declared on May 2.
Chandra was appointed as the election commissioner in February 2019, only a few weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, reported NDTV. During his tenure, which will end on May 14, 2022, Chandra will also oversee elections in Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Goa, Uttarakhand, and Punjab.
Chandra belongs to the 1980 batch of the Indian Revenue Service. Before his stint as an election commissioner, Chandra served as the Central Board of Direct Taxes chairperson between November 2016 and February 2019. The CBDT is a body that looks after the work of policy administration and implementation of direct taxes in India.
“Shri Chandra has a rich and varied experience in various areas of...
