Newly-appointed election commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu assumed charge on Friday (March 15). Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar welcomed the 2 officers and “emphasised the significance of their joining at the historic point when ECI is all set to conduct General Elections 2024 in the world’s largest democracy”.
Their becoming a member of the Commission happened a day after the previous bureaucrats have been appointed as election commissioners on Thursday.
They are the primary ones to have been appointed as members of the ballot panel after the new regulation on appointment of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and ECs got here into drive not too long ago.
Their appointment have been necessitated after Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey retired on February 14 and Arun Goel introduced his sudden resignation on March 8.
Gyanesh Kumar and Sandhu, each 1988-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, belonged to the Kerala and Uttarakhand cadres, respectively.
(With PTI inputs)
