The Union government Tuesday picked 1984-batch IAS officer Anup Chandra Pandey, the former chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh , as an election commissioner, taking the Election Commission of India to its full strength.
Pandey(62) will demit office in February 2024, just before the next Lok Sabha polls to be held around March 2024. Pandey will now be in the three-member panel of the election commission which was vacant after former Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora’s retirement on April 12.
The Election Commission has been working with a vacancy since former CEC Sunil Arora demitted office on April12, almost a month ago. While Sushil Chandra , the CEC , Rajiv kumar is the other Election Commissioner besides the newly appointed Anup Chandra Pandey.
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